{"id":25,"date":"2023-10-02T17:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2023\/?p=25"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:57:44","slug":"mentalhealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2023\/mentalhealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating mental health care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A training initiative is giving Husker psychology students a first-hand look at the fusion of primary care and mental health treatment, an increasingly popular model nationwide that increases access for underserved populations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program, led by Husker psychologist Arthur \u201cTrey\u201d Andrews, positions Nebraska\u2019s Clinical Psychology Training Program as one of only a few nationally that enable students to practice in an integrated primary care setting early in their training. In integrated care, mental health practitioners deliver services in community-based primary care settings, such as family doctor, pediatrician and OB-GYN offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A three-year, nearly $700,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, funds the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A primary goal is training students to think beyond one-on-one treatment and focus on the systems of mental health care delivery. This includes logistics: medical office location, transportation, time required for treatment, and cost and insurance issues. <\/p>\n\n\n

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These barriers disproportionately affect immigrants and refugees, low-income individuals, those without insurance, and minorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese pieces are really critical to thinking about<\/span> whether a person can even get in to see you, <\/span>how feasible it is for them to continue seeing you <\/span>and our ability to reach <\/span>folks who don\u2019t otherwise <\/span>have access to care,\u201d said Andrews, <\/span>associate professor of psychology <\/span>and ethnic studies and co-director of the <\/span>university\u2019s Minority Health Disparities Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Integrated care circumvents many roadblocks. Patients receive treatment in a familiar building, retain more privacy and have access to on-site specialists who provide expertise and services that busy physicians cannot.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Husker trainees per year are working about 20 hours per week at two of Nebraska\u2019s high-need federally qualified health centers. The trainees have so far served more than 700 people, easing Nebraska\u2019s shortage of mental health care providers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anneliis Sartin-Tarm, a member of the first cohort, said her experiences highlighted the dissonance between the classroom and on-the-ground reality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of wondering why people aren\u2019t coming to see therapists or why people aren\u2019t responding to our treatments, we as providers should ask, \u2018What can we do to help meet our populations\u2019 needs?\u2019\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The faculty team includes Husker psychologists David Hansen, Anna Jaffe, Tierney Lorenz and Dennis McChargue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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