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How to Use the Competencies

New to integrating behavioral health into primary care? Already delivering integrated care? Wherever you are in the process, the 8 behavioral health core competencies help develop and deepen your skills. We invite clinicians, educators, and all primary care team members to use the Competencies to improve integrated care delivery.


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Explore the 8 Competencies

Identify and assess patient’s health behavior, learning and development, mental health, substance use and other social needs.

Competency 1
Identify + Assess

Engage and empower patients, helping them understand how behavioral health factors affect their overall health.

Competency 2
Engage + Empower

Create and implement a shared patient care plan including behavioral health expertise.

Competency 3
Create + Implement

Collaborate to strengthen team function and shared decision making across the care team and patients.

Competency 4
Collaborate + Strengthen

Connect and communicate effectively with other providers, patients and the care team.

Competency 5
Connect + Communicate

Prioritize team and patient agendas to design the most effective care for more positive health outcomes.

Competency 6
Prioritize + Design

Employ the biopsychosocial model to provide whole-person, family-oriented care.

Competency 7
Employ + Provide

Understand, value and adapt to the diverse professional cultures of an integrated care team.

Competency 8
Understand + Adapt