Collaborative Care Model

• Estimated Course Length:  2 hrs. and 47 mins.
• CE Credits: 3.75 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, physicians, and nurses / 2.75 continuing education hours for counselors and marriage and family therapists.
• Course Includes: 5 modules consisting of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, animation explainer videos, knowledge games, and more 
• Provider videos: 2 provider videos to highlight key concepts
• Supplementary PDFs: 4 downloadable PDFs expanding on relevant course topics
• Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners (licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, behavioral health nurses); Physicians; Nurses, Psychiatrists
• Level of Instruction: Intermediate
• Prerequisite: None
• Instructional Method: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and knowledge checks 
• Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.
• Completion Requirements: To obtain your CE certificate, you must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.
• Financial/Commercial Support Statement: This course has no commercial support.
• Conflict of Interest: This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.
• Grievance and Refund Policies: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.
• Participation Costs: The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.
• Course Creation Date: 11/31/2021

Course Objectives

What the learner should be able to describe and employ upon course completion:

1. Summarize key concepts and practices of the collaborative care model of incorporating behavioral health treatment in a medical care setting to improve patient outcomes.  

2. Discuss effective administrative and clinical planning strategies to implement the model.

3. Analyze required components of incorporating the collaborative care model interventions into a primary or specialist care setting, including measurement- and evidence-based care and interdisciplinary collaboration and consultation. 

MODULE 1: WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE CARE?

The basics of collaborative care, including how to plan for it,  align members of the collaborative care team, and the principles that make the programs successful. 

MODULE 2: THE TEAM AND THE COLLABORATIVE CARE MODEL WORKFLOW

The different team members and the workflow that make collaborative care an effective model. 

MODULE 3: KEY REQUIREMENTS AND ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS

How treatment in Collaborative Care should be informed by measurement-based care, and well communicated between all team members and the patient.  

MODULE 4: MEETING THE NEEDS OF ALL PATIENTS

Key ways you can meet the needs of diverse patients, such as being aware and respectful of the intersecting aspects of a patient’s identity and preparing to manage complex cases. 

MODULE 5: IMPLEMENTATION OF COLLABORATIVE CARE

Common barriers to implementing the collaborative care model, and key solutions for overcoming them in your personal collaborative care workflow.