By Invitation Only

Collaborative Integration of

Medical and Behavioral Health Services

Saturday, November 5, 2016 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at William James College

Bruce Ecker, PhD, Program Coordinator

Bill Gunn, PhD, Alan Lorenz, MD and Nancy Ruddy, PhD, instructors

This workshop will include a presentation of key concepts and current issues related to integrated primary care. An initial activity that engages the audience in the attitude required to make a paradigm shift away from traditional mental health delivery will be followed by a presentation of key skills and competencies necessary to be successful in this setting.  In addition, a summary of common ethical dilemmas around privacy and boundaries will be presented. The majority of the workshop will be experiential with discussion and practice of common scenarios and critical skills using the experience of the current psychology interns placed in the two active primary care settings.  The workshop is sponsored by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (SAMHSA) through a Graduate Psychology Education grant and collaborative planning with Lynn Community Health Center and the North Shore Medical Center.

Specific learning objectives:

• Describe the key skills and competencies necessary to be successful in integrated care.

• Describe the common ethical dilemmas that arise in working in a primary care setting and ways they can resolve these dilemmas.

• Report being more competent and satisfied in being an effective consultant/provider in working in an integrated care setting.

By Invitation Only

MBHS | 6 CE Credit | $15 (lunch cost)

No Lunch Option - Free

Bill Gunn PhD, is a faculty member of the NH/Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Concord, NH and holds a clinical appointment at Dartmouth Medical School.  He is a former board member of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association.  Bill is a co-author of Models of Collaboration (2006) and The Collaborative Psychotherapist (2009). He coordinates with Julie Schirmer, LCSW an integrated care “learning community” in New England which meets regularly.  He is membership co-chair of CFHA, and chair with Barbara Ward-Zimmerman, PhD of the Division 38 primary care subcommittee.  He also has a particular interest in working with patients having unexplained symptoms and those wanting to make lifestyle changes such as weight management and smoking cessation. 

Alan Lorenz, MD, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, migrated west for college at Stanford, and then began collaborative work at the nearby Palo Alto VA Hospital. After doing graduate work in psychology, he returned to Madison for Medical School, and then moved on to Rochester, New York for residency in Family Medicine, a fellowship in Family Systems, and training as a Family Therapist. Dr. Lorenz taught in a residency program for ten years, seeing medical patients and teaching psychosocial core and family practicum. He currently works in the University Health Service at the University of Rochester. He is the author of dozens of articles, book chapters, and presentations to local, national and international audiences.

Nancy Ruddy, PhD, received her degree in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University in 1991.  She spent the first 22 years of her career in medical education, first at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry from 1991-2000.  After relocating to New Jersey in 2000, she taught at Hunterdon Family Practice Residency from 2001-2008, and at Mountainside Family Practice from 2008-2013.  Throughout her academic career she focused on training medical and mental health professionals to integrate behavioral health care into primary care settings.  After a brief detour into large scale health care communications and marketing aimed at enhancing patient engagement, health behaviors and medication adherence, she now consults with academic institutions and health care systems to prepare professionals to provide team based care and integrated behavioral health in primary care.  She was the author of the 2008 APA Books publication The Collaborative Psychotherapist.  She was awarded the Health Psychology (Division 38) Timothy B. Jeffrey Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Health Psychology in 2013 and named a Fellow of the Division of Health Psychology in 2014.