Optimizing the pediatric patient centered care medical home through a trauma informed care lens

Abstract

The need for mental health services in primary care settings to address trauma remains a pressing issue for pediatrics. The existing literature supports the compatibility of Trauma-Informed Care Principles in Patient-Centered settings to address trauma, yet despite professional guidelines highlighting these models, a specific example within a primary care setting remains unrealized. This paper will conceptualize a Trauma Informed Medical Home model with Integrated Behavioral Health utilizing some aligning concepts such as safety, accessibility and collaboration found within the Trauma Informed Care and a Medical Home guideline. The resulting conceptualized model will represent a strengthened primary care setting where the delivery of mental health services using a trauma-informed lens can optimize patient-centered primary care medical home services.

Keywords:

• Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
• integrated behavioral health model (IBHM)
• patient centered care (PCC)
• patient centered medical home (PCMH)
• trauma informed care (TIC)

Acknowledgment

The author would like to thank those who guided me on this path.

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