Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care | Adult Track

Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM ET through Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM ET

Online via Zoom

Continuing Education Offered

• 2 hours ethics live interactive online
• 2 hours pain management live interactive online
• 16 hours regular asynchronous online
• 19 hours regular live interactive online

Program Sessions

• Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:00pm–7:00pm | Program Intro & Small Group
• Monday, March 9, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Introduction to Integrated Health Care
• Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Social Determinants of Health
• Monday, March 16, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | A Model of Behavioral Health Consultation
• Monday, March 23, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Collaborative Care Model
• Monday, March 30, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Pain Management
• Monday, April 13, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Motivational Enhancement I
• Monday, April 20, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Motivational Enhancement II
• Monday, May 4, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Business Models
• Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | ACT and Mindfulness
• Monday, May 11, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Implementation
• Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Ethics

Instructors

Michelle Duprey, LMSW, IBHPC Certificate Director

See our website for a full list of contributing instructors

Modules

Introduction to Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care

In this module, participants will learn about the nature and implications of integrated care, and will become fluent in the key terms that have come to describe it. Topics will include key public policies affecting integrated care, successful models of integrated care; population health management and health disparities; and ethical challenges and opportunities in integrated care. The transition to integrated care will be framed as a paradigm shift from disease-oriented to recovery-oriented service delivery, resulting in new opportunities and challenges, and direct implications for consumers and their families.

Integrated Health Systems and Implementation

In this module, participants will obtain knowledge and skills related to the implementation of integrated care services. Implementation of integrated team-based collaborative care presents challenges and opportunities for providers and managers, with significant implications for access to care and patient satisfaction. Topics include basics of integrated health implementation; culturally responsive practice; Motivational Enhancement, and provider mindfulness and self-care.

Behavioral Intervention in Integrated Care

Common elements often form the basis of evidence-based behavioral health interventions. This module teaches and reviews behavioral intervention skills relevant to everyday clinical practice across disciplines and practice settings. Brief interventions around motivational enhancement, psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, and mindfulness, and can help promote adaptive health behaviors in support of improved wellness. There is a strong emphasis on feasible brief interventions in a fast-paced clinical context and on adapting interventions to each consumer's unique biopsychosocial, socioeconomic, and cultural context.

Biomedical Aspects of Integrated Care

Many presenting medical problems are deeply influenced by health behaviors, and a growing body of evidence suggests that mental health consumers, especially those with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders, are faced with a broad range of physical health disparities. In this module, participants will deepen their understanding of bidirectional integrated care for medical issues such as diabetes and obesity, and behavioral health issues such as substance use disorders and depression. This courses emphasizes the medical sequelae commonly associated with behavioral health diagnoses and psychotropic medications. There are special sections on primary care psychopharmacology and prescription drug abuse.

Objectives

1. Explain the difference between colocation and integration.
2. Compare and contrast interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams.
3. Identify at least three social determinants of health for adult populations.
4. Identify at least two ethical challenges to integrated health practice.
5. Address/resolve common ethical challenges in integrated health practice.
6. Develop skills to hire and train staff in integrated health practice.
7. Implement an organizational self-assessment for cultural responsiveness.
8. Explain how provider mindfulness and self-care relate to workforce challenges such as burnout prevention.
9. List three features of primary prevention of oral diseases such as dental caries.
10. Identify two financing strategies that can facilitate integrated care.
11. List the evidence-based components of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for addicted populations.
12. Apply Motivational Enhancement in integrated health settings.
13. Use Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in integrated health settings.
14. Describe the assessment of pain in integrated health settings.
15. Define and recognize "change talk."
16. Define and apply "reflective listening."
17. Define and apply "cognitive restructuring."
18. Engage in self-assessment in clinical practice.
19. State the demographic health disparities facing people living with serious and persistent mental illness.
20. State the role of integrated primary care service delivery in remediating health disparities facing people living with serious and persistent mental illness.
21. Explain 3 factors leading to over-prescription of opioid medications.
22. List the 3 most common psychiatric medications prescribed in primary care and their uses, contraindications, and potential side-effects.
23. Describe the components of the Infant Mental Health model.
24. Identify at least five social determinants of health for the pediatric population.
25. Identify three risk factors for teen suicide.
26. Identify the five core components of the IMPACT Collaborative Care model.
27. State the role of warm handoffs in behavioral health consultation.
28. Describe 3 considerations for providing care to the LGBTQ population.
29. Describe strategies for anti-racist practice in integrated health care settings.
30. Outline the four-step model for approaching pain in primary care settings.
31. Describe how the IMPACT Collaborative Care model addresses common barriers to behavioral health care.
32. Identify at least three common chronic health conditions among older adults presenting in primary care settings.
33. Describe mental health screening strategies for older adults.
34. Identify at least three body systems.
35. Describe two organizational challenges in implementation.
36. Describe specific interventions to use with clients around body systems.
37. Apply 2 strategies to counteract the over-prescription of opioid medications.
38. Outline the four-step model for approaching pain in primary care settings.
39. List 4 common screening tools and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

CE Approval Statement

The University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2023-5/15/2026.

Social workers participating in this course will receive 35 general continuing education contact hours, 2 pain management contact hours, and 2 ethics continuing education contact hours.

Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.