Preview: Digging Deeper: Renewing the Primary Care Commitment to Mental Health

In this video, Josh Hamilton, APRN-BC, CTMH, CLNC, CNE, provides a preview of the session “Digging Deeper: Renewing the Primary Care Commitment to Mental Health” at our Practical Updates in Primary Care 2023 Virtual Series, including the burden of mental illness, practical approaches to mental health integration in primary care, and shared decision-making frameworks.

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Josh Hamilton, APRN-BC, CTMH, CLNC, CNE, is a doctor of nursing practice, family nurse practitioner, and psychiatric nurse practitioner with The Hamilton Group Behavioral Health (Las Vegas, NV).

TRANSCRIPTION:

Dr Josh Hamilton: Hi, I'm Josh Hamilton, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. And I wanted to reach out to invite you to attend this year's Practical Updates in Primary Care conference where my friend and colleague, Dr. Rhone D'Errico, and I will be kicking things off with the first in a series of Digging Deeper sessions. And our particular session is going to dig deeper into that idea of mental health and mental illness as it presents in the primary care setting.

So we'll be providing some important dialogues to help you understand and update your knowledge about the burden of mental illness relative to the logical access point in primary care. We hope to help explore some practical approaches to mental health integration in primary care. Of course, integration means something different to all of us. We hope to give you some tools, as well as a more pragmatic approach to thinking about psychometry and measurement-based care, and really easy pieces of low-hanging fruit that you can integrate and adopt right away to help you do a better job catching and addressing some of these mental issues.

We will emphasize shared decision-making frameworks and collaboration with our patients as we try to approach mental health issues in the primary care setting. And then, hopefully, we'll help you operationalize a plan to own those issues, to co-manage those issues, and to identify red flags and evolving presentations that need to be referred or addressed in a more collaborative model.

So I hope you'll join us for this very exciting session, a conversation that we hope you'll join and participate in with us. And I hope you'll stick around for the rest of the conference. We've got a great lineup planned for you and we hope to see you there. Join us, won't you?