Illustrate how you would intervene in the primary care setting by creating a 3-page script/dialogue between yourself and a patient on your chosen topic.

In this mid-term assignment, you will write a 7-page paper in which you choose a behavioral/mental health topic , review scholarly literature related to that topic, and describe how you would engage with a patient on this topic in an integrated care setting.

The goal of this assignment is two-fold. The first is to increase your knowledge of a mental health issue or medical problem commonly seen in the primary setting. The second part is to improve your skills in conducting interprofessional collaborative practice  to address this issue in primary care.

Begin by choosing a topic. The following is a suggested list of topics; your topic can be something not on this list, but it must be related to primary care:

Major depressive disorder

The paper should be 7 pages  typed in Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and include one-inch margins. APA style citations and references are required. Do not include an abstract. No direct quotes allowed—paraphrase only.

The paper is expected to include references a minimum of five empirical and theoretical scholarly articles that are not on the syllabus. At least four of your outside sources should come from scholarly journals, not books or websites. The DSM does not count as one of your scholarly sources.

Part I:

Conduct a review of the scholarly literature over the past 5 years that (4 pages) that:

Discusses the issue as it relates to the primary or integrated care setting.
Identifies how social determinants of health can impede care or magnify the issue.
Provides recommendations on assessment tools and interventions that are most effective for interprofessional primary care practice.

Part II:

Illustrate how you would intervene in the primary care setting by creating a 3-page script/dialogue between yourself and a patient on your chosen topic. You should start the script as if you are behavioral health provider in a primary care setting, and one of the PCPs has just conducted a warm handoff and asked you to meet with the patient. Create a script of a 15-minute session (3 pages). The script should incorporate dialog from both provider and patient. For example:

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROVIDER: How are you doing today? The PCP just said you’ve been dealing with some concerns. Can you tell me about them?

PATIENT: Yeah, I’ve been feeling…

Your script does not have to be based on your actual behavioral health practice in a primary care setting. In the dialogue you create, your script should represent the following:

what you would do if you were actually in that setting dealing with the specific issue that you discussed in your literature review
how you would address and recognize the patient’s intersectional identities, and to ensure any intervention you conduct acknowledges how socio-structural and/or environmental factors impede care or magnify mental and/or behavioral health concerns
how you would ensure your assessment and interventions foster resilience

Rubric:

Literature review is integrated in a scholarly manner and includes discussion of the issue as it relates to the primary or integrated care setting and social determinants of health.

Practice recommendations focus on the primary care setting and includes discussion of interprofessional collaborative practice as it relates to assessment and intervention .

Script demonstrates the intricacies of providing behavioral health services in the primary care setting and includes a component on assessment and intervention .

Demonstrates graduate-level writing skills .

Last Completed Projects