The Lexicon:
Speaking the IBH Language
Speaking the IBH Language
PCP
What is Primary Care Provider?
This tool is often used in pediatric IBH to screen for symptoms of depression in adolescents.
What is PHQ-9 or PHQ-A?
The daily routine where a BHC collaborates with medical providers to review upcoming patient visits, identifying opportunities to offer support and determining the best approach to assist those patients.
What is schedule-scrubbing or schedule-gardening?
10
What is the typical percentage of patients referred by a BHC to specialty mental health services?
or
What is the guardrail for number of minutes to aim for in a contextual interview?
This collaborative, goal-oriented communication style helps patients explore and resolve ambivalence to make positive behavior changes.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
CMG
What is Children's Medical Group?
This tool assesses ADHD symptoms based on feedback from parents and teachers.
What is the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale?
In an IBH visit, after the BHC provides an introduction to BHC services and sets an agenda for the visit, they next do this.
What reviewing the results standardized screening tool (PROMIS)?
30
What is the aim for average time of an Initial Visit?
OR
How many minutes does the BHC visit template reflect for scheduled visits?
This intervention helps children and teens improve their mood by re-engaging in meaningful activities they may have stopped doing.
What is Behavioral Activation?
This model integrates mental health into primary care, ensuring that patients receive holistic care within the same clinic. The goal of this model is to improve the overall health of patients by addressing behavioral health conditions and biopsychosocial health issues.
What is PCBH? (Primary Care Behavioral Health)
This screening tool evaluates anxiety in children and adolescents.
What is the SCARED (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders)?
A warm handoff from a medical provider to a BHC results in this type of visit, allowing for immediate behavioral health support.
What is an in-clinic or clinic same-day visit?
What is the number of CMG primary care clinics?
Helping children recognize and challenge unhelpful thoughts contributing to anxiety or depression is a key strategy in this type of therapeutic approach.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A "client appointment," but in IBH verbiage.
What is a "patient visit?"
This evidence-based assessment is used to evaluate the risk of suicide in pediatric patients presenting with concerning symptoms.
What is the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)?
When a BHC is not engaged in a patient visit, this is where they should be in the clinic as much as possible.
What is the team space?
1
What is the mode number of visits with a mental and behavioral health provider?
This intervention emphasizes short-term, solution-oriented strategies to address behavioral health concerns, helping patients focus on their values and take meaningful action.
What is Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT)?
GATHER
What is Generalist, Accessible, Team-Based, High Impact, Educator, and Routine Care
This brief questionnaire in used in primary care screens for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in toddlers between 16 and 30 months of age. BHCs provide follow-up screening for patients with elevated scores on this questionnaire.
What is the M-CHAT (Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers)?
This brief, informal discussion between a BHC and a PCP provides quick guidance or support for managing a patient’s behavioral health concerns without requiring a handoff.
What is a curbside consultation?
Unlimited!
What is the boundless number of opportunities for impacting population health by addressing behavioral health needs in an integrated care model?
This type of behavioral intervention is commonly used by BHCs to teach parents effective strategies to manage challenging child behaviors, such as removing attention from minor misbehaviors and reinforcing positive behaviors.
What is Parent Management Training (PMT)?
or
What is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)?
or
What is Selective Attention?