Bridget Beachy

Patient interviewing pedagogy in medical education has not evolved to comprehensively capture the biopsychosocial model of healthcare delivery. While gathering a patient’s social history targets important aspects of social context it does not adequately capture and account for the real-time reassessment required to understand evolving factors that...

This chapter is organized into several sections as we, the authors, aim to demonstrate how clinicians, trained in third-wave behavior therapy, approach attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). First, we provide definitions of major third-wave therapies (e.g., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT], Dialectical Behavior Therapy [DBT] and Mi...

Community-based primary care settings play an important role in the provision of health care to vulnerable populations, as well as in primary care education. Much attention has been given to medical education in community-based primary care and as the need for workforce development grows for behavioral health in primary care, clinical supervision o...

Comments on the original article by Wolk et al. (see record 2022-18591-001) regarding the implementation of evidence-based practices in non-specialty mental health settings. The authors both had tremendous gratitude for Wolk et al.'s (2022) ability to accurately describe and elucidate numerous difficulties that frontline workers experience, especia...

Background: The events of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced the world to adopt telemedicine frameworks to comply with isolation and stay-at-home regulations. Telemedicine, in various forms, has been used by patients and medical professionals for quite some time, especially telepsychiatry. To examine the efficacy and role of te...

Many primary care clinics struggle with rapid implementation and systematic expansion of primary care behavioral health (PCBH) services. Often, an uneven course of program development is due to lack of attention to preparing clinic leadership, addressing operational factors, and training primary care providers (PCPs) and nurses. This article offers...

Never in human history has there been as many medications and technologies available to help people manage their diabetes, yet the sequelae of poorly managed diabetes continue to wreak havoc on patients and health-care systems alike. While estimates of the prevalence rates of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the United States range from 6 to 13% (Centers...

Pain avoidance plays a central role in patients with persistent pain. Health-care professionals can help people with persistent pain through various lifestyle approaches, including values clarification and values connection exercises, mindfulness practices, and behaviors that promote commitment to change. Selected interventions should be implemente...

“Depression’s Toll on the Heart” And “Psychologists in Medical Schools,” Were featured articles on the covers of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) popular Monitor and American Psychologist publications, respectively, in Spring of 2014. The role behavioral and psychological factors play in the development of medical disorders, such as c...