ABBHP diplomate status in behavioral healthcare delivery recognizes a set of specialty skills within general healthcare. The diplomate recognizes experience and skills in working with behavioral health problems in ways that are coordinated with allopathic medicine. The Specialty of Behavioral Healthcare Practice integrates behavioral health into medical care in diagnosing, treating and providing the necessary monitoring of post-treatment behavioral follow up including:

a. Chronic Disease Management
b. Strategies in Health Management and Illness Prevention
c. Treatment Compliance
d. Behavioral Medicine
e. Assessment and Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Care Settings

Board certification by ABBHP is an indication to both patients and providers that you are a specialist in providing behavioral healthcare diagnoses and treatments. Our board certification, the first of its kind, tells the public and your referral sources that you are a specialist and partner in the primary care of patients.

After many years of concern with our fragmented health delivery system, there is currently intense interest in combining the two silos of physical health and mental health into one integrated system in which behavioral health is an integral, seamless part of primary care.