Groups & Initiatives
Family and Behavioral Health
The Group on Family and Behavioral Health was formed in 2011 as a result of a merger of the Group on Behavioral Science and the Group on Family in Family Medicine. This new group serves as a forum for the discussion, collaboration, and communication on issues relevant to family systems and behavioral health within family medicine. We strive to serve as the professional home for all residency and medical school family medicine educators who aspire to teach a bio-psycho-social model of health care (including family, community, culture, and spiritual dimensions) and to promote family systems thinking in research, clinical practice, and teaching. Many members of the group maintain collaborative partnerships, focusing on resident and student education with “sister” organizations: The Behavioral Science Forum and The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association.
The Group has four task forces:
Advocacy and Policy
Mission: To promote inter-professional training and practice
through advocacy, collaboration and identification of barriers
Goals
1) Engage others regarding joint principles
2) Identify legal and policy issues to support inter-professional
training
3) Promote advocacy skills
Contact person: Julie Schirmer, MSW
Behavioral Health Provider Training
Mission: To ensure all Behavioral Health Providers have Primary
Care exposure
Goals
1) Identify training opportunities that currently exist
2) Coordinate with other organizations and identify champions
within these organizations
3) Match-make primary care sites with behavioral health trainees
and mentoring to create sites
Contact Person: Linda Myerholtz, PhD
Competency-Based Curriculum
Mission: To design a developmental competency-based Family and
Behavioral Health curriculum.
Goals:
1) Identify what has been done so far by reviewing existing
documents like the RRC guidelines, PCMH Joint Principles, Core Principles and
Historical Docs
2) Use a focus group to identify missing content areas by creating
a matrix of ACGME competencies and existing material.
Contact Person:Ana
Catilina Trina. MD
Conference Programming
Mission: To promote integration of behavioral health perspective
as a required component for every family practice educator through intentional
planning
Goals
1) Increase number of Behavioral Health submissions across and
for principles such as family systems, health behavior change, EBBH, Pediatric
Behavioral Health
2)Address learning needs of all
3)Assure
diversity of types of content and process, promote collaboration
Contact Person:Deb Taylor, PhD
View the Group'sCore Principles of Behavioral Medicine.
Behavioral Science Basics Wiki
The Behavioral Science Basics Wiki is a resource site to help new and seasoned behavioral health/family systems educators with their teaching and clinical care.The Wiki contains key articles, books, curriculum evaluation tools, and links to the STFM Resource Library organized within key topics of interest for behavioral scientists. The Wiki is an evolving collection of resources and STFM members areencouraged to participate in the continual development of the Wiki through suggesting additional resources.
Go to the Behavioral Science Basics Wiki
Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship
In 2010, the Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship (BFEF) was created in collaboration between the Groups of Behavioral Science and Family in Family Medicine. The BFEF is a year-long fellowship for newer behavioral science educators (less than 5 yrs of experience) within family medicine residencies and departments. The BFEF is designed to support new faculty charged with delivering family systems/behavioral science curricula in their programs. Learn more about the Fellowship.
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To join the discussion list, simply create a user account on theSTFM Resource Libraryand join the Group on Family and Behavioral Health. You will automatically be part of the discussion list. Current group members can post to the discussion list by e-mailing forum-348@mail.fmdrl.org.
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Why I am a Group Member:
“To connect with fellow behavioral scientists and those
who have a strong interest in family systems.”
“Great mentors and professional connections!”
“Though most of my contact with the people in these groups has
come at conferences, having them as identified colleagues and communicating
over list serves has been helpful to me by providing support, ideas for
teaching and opportunities for collaboration.”
“It was STFM that introduced me to core principles of behavioral science teaching when I first started as a behavioral scientist 3 years ago. I was clueless, but enthusiastic, and with my networking and STFM’s resources I was able to develop a curriculum and teaching experiences that made sense and was relevant for residents at our residency program.”
