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Reviews the book, Practice-Based Research: A Guide for Clinicians edited by R. Trent Codd III. As illuminated in this new book, clinicians are at the forefront of mental health care. They have the proverbial front row view of treatment implementation. Therefore, clinicians are ideally suited, compared with academic researchers, to conduct research that yields a quick and meaningful impact on the medical field. Therefore, clinicians conducting practice-based research are well situated to identify and answer questions of practical importance and direct impact on the medical field. This five-chapter, 13-article guidebook brings to light that the field of mental health faces a scientist-practitioner gap. Hopefully, this book achieves its intention: to improve the caliber of treatments delivered and research conducted, thereby helping the ultimate recipients of both-the patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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The expansion of integrated, collaborative, behavioral health services in primary care requires a trained behavioral health workforce with specific competencies to deliver effective, evidence-informed, team-based care. Most behavioral health providers do not have training or experience working as primary care behavioral health consultants (BHCs), and require structured training to function effectively in this role. This article discusses one such training program developed to meet the needs of a large healthcare system initiating widespread implementation of the primary care behavioral health model of service delivery. It details the Department of Defense's experience in developing its extensive BHC training program, including challenges of addressing personnel selection and hiring issues, selecting a model for training, developing and implementing a phased training curriculum, and improving the training over time to address identified gaps. Future directions for training improvements and lessons learned in a large healthcare system are discussed.