This continuing education manual provides licensed psychologists and advanced graduate clinicians with an integrated conceptual examination of behavioral and mental health as overlapping but distinct domains. It covers historical and theoretical foundations, conceptual models such as the biopsychosocial and diathesis-stress models, clinical implications for assessment and intervention, system-level influences, and emerging research priorities, emphasizing ethical and evidence-based psychological practice in integrated care settings.

Licensed Psychologists Advanced Graduate Clinicians Clinical Psychologists Psychiatric Clinicians

Program Objectives

Describe 4 key conceptual models that integrate biological, psychological, and social contributors to behavioral and mental health.

Identify 3 major clinical implications of an integrated behavioral and mental health framework for psychological practice.

Explain 3 system-level and contextual factors that influence assessment and intervention in mental health care.

Analyze 3 future directions in behavioral and mental health research and practice relevant to integrated care.