Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health in Primary Care

Rahil D. Briggs, Psy.D., is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Director of Healthy Steps at Montefiore, and the Director of Pediatric Behavioral Health Services at Montefiore Medical Group. Dr. Briggs joined Einstein and Montefiore in 2005 as the Director and Founder of Healthy Steps at Montefiore. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 2008 and expanded the Healthy Steps program to multiple sites within Montefiore Medical Group in 2009 and 2013. She was named the Director of Pediatric Behavioral Health Services at Montefiore in 2013 to spearhead the formation of one of the most comprehensive integrated pediatric behavioral health system in the nation. Her work concentrates on co-location of mental health specialists within primary care pediatrics, with a focus on prevention, early childhood mental health and development, and parent-child relationships. Dr. Briggs completed her undergraduate work at Duke University (magna cum laude) and her doctoral work at New York University.

Foreword; Jack P. Shonkoff .- Chapter 1: Introduction; Rahil D. Briggs .- Chapter 2: The Clinical Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Questionnaire: Implications for Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Care; Anne Murphy, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele, Brooke Allman, Theodore Kastner, Shanta Rishi Dube .- Chapter 3: The Economics of Child Development; Andrew D. Racine .- Chapter 4: The Goodness of Fit between Evidence Based Early Childhood Mental Health Programs and the Primary Care Setting; Dana E. Crawford and Rahil D. Briggs .- Chapter 5: Healthy Steps for Young Children: Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care for Young Children and their Families; Margot Kaplan-Sanoff and Rahil D. Briggs .- Chapter 6: Workforce Development for Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health; Rebecca Schrag Hershberg and Rahil D. Briggs .- Chapter 7: Healthy Steps at Montefiore: Our Journey from Start Up to Scale; Rahil Briggs, Rebecca Schrag Hershberg, Miguelina German .- Chapter 8: Cultural Considerations in Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health; Helena Duch, Kate Cuno, Miguelina German .- Chapter 9: Funding, Financing, and Investing in Integrated Early Childhood Mental Health Services in Primary Care Settings; Ayelet Talmi, Melissa Buchholz, Emily Muther .- Chapter 10: Considerations for Planning and Conducting an Evaluation; Ellen Johnson Silver and Rosy Chhabra .- Chapter 11: Integrating Early Childhood Behavioral Health into Primary Care: The Pediatrician's Perspective; Diane Bloomfield, Nicole Brown, Karen Warman .- Chapter 12: Stories from the Exam Room: Case Examples of Healthy Steps Interventions at Montefiore; Laura Krug and Polina Umylny .- Appendix.