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Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2731-1875

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5434-3071

Author Biographies

Author Biographies and ORCID ID’s:

Corbin, L (0000-0002-2731-1875) – Lisa Corbin, PhD, LPC, NCC has worked in higher education for over 25 years and is currently serving as the Chair and Director of the MS Counseling program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her research interests include Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH), mindfulness, and mentorship in counselor education.

Schmoyer-Edmiston, N (0000-0002-5434-3071) - Nic Schmoyer-Edmiston, PhD, NCC is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has experience as a supervisor and clinician in primary care and general hospital settings, practicing from the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model. His clinical and research interests are related to integrated primary care (IPC) and integrated behavioral health (IBH), behavioral medicine, single session therapy, medical trauma, and behavioral health clinician education for IBH and IPC settings.

McCormick, S. - Sophie McCormick, BA, is a second-year student in the Mental Health Counseling MS program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has clinical experience working with adults with substance use disorder and children, adolescents, and adults with varying mental health diagnoses. Her research interests include Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH), children and adolescent development, and substance use.

Peters, M. - Melissa Peters, BS is a second year Mental Health Counseling MS student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has clinical work experience with addiction, and a variety of mental health diagnoses across the lifespan. Her clinical and research interests include Integrated Behavioral Health, working with individuals with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and trauma.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc07vt2o

Abstract

Mental health services are being integrated into healthcare facilities at a rate quicker than what can be filled. This gap in services creates openings for counselors. Integrated Behavioral Health is a complex approach to healthcare that differs substantially from specialty mental health and is often not taught in most counselor education programs despite the inclusion of IBH in the recent CACREP standards. In this article we inform counselor educators on how one counselor education program that is located within an osteopathic medical school trains their masters-level counselors in training on how to work in IBH settings. The interdisciplinary approach involves numerous interprofessional education experiences in which students learn from, with, and about each other and their varying professions. We discuss highlights of the interprofessional experiences, topics to be included in and the importance of incorporating IBH training into counselor education, and future directions for IBH and the field of counseling.

Public Significance Statement

The authors report specific ways this counselor education program located within an osteopathic medical school educated counselors-in-training on integrated behavioral health. Lectures, small group activities, discussions, and shadowing are some of the educational opportunities that yielded positive results. Each educational intervention is aimed at preparing counselors in training to work in an area of healthcare that is significantly growing, in need of mental health experts, and well suited for counselors.

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