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The collaborative practice of clinicians across disciplines requires a shared language appreciation of diagnostic and therapeutic paradigms and recognition of appropriate roles within the health care team. This collaborative environment is at the heart of a health care system that utilizes the skills and expertise of all its team members in appropriate and extended roles. This model of care delivery is often called integrated care (IC) or collaborative care (CC). Although this model is endorsed by many professional societies and agencies the CC/IC care delivery model can fail due to multiple factors.
In your initial post consider the clinical partnerships that result within the CC/IC delivery model. Integrating concepts developed from different content domains in psychology address the following questions.
In addition consider how successful health care models assume an understanding of each professions competencies and responsibilities. For example primary care providers (PCPs) are sometimes unaware of the abilities and practice scope of psychology professionals.