Collaborative Care Model

About the Course

This course aims to align professionals on the Collaborative Care Model, including its core concept and methods of implementation. Throughout its five modules, this course uses a selection of learning tools such as live filmed role-plays, instructive animations, and interactive assessments. After finishing this course, you should be able to summarize key concepts and practices of the collaborative care model, discuss effective administrative and clinical planning strategies to implement the model, and analyze the required components of incorporating the collaborative care model interventions into a primary or specialist care setting. With the support of subject matter experts, printable resources, and supplemental videos, Collaborative Care will prove an invaluable asset to your practice.

Start Learning

Course Overview

  • 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: 11 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.

Learning Objectives

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. 

Course Outline

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.