National Psychology Training Consortium

Course Description and Target Audience

This presentation will review the recent mutual professional interest in, and growth of, integrated care, specifically in primary care settings. Dr. Biggs, who has helped advance integrated care in west-central Indiana and east-central Illinois over the past two decades, will discuss models of collaborative care, instances of successful collaboration, barriers to collaboration, and potential problem areas and concerns. Specific attention will be given to possible ethical pitfalls and important ethical differences between psychology and various medical professions with which psychology collaborates through integrated care.

The materials presented are based upon the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, the Indiana Code and Indiana Administrative Code, and peer-reviewed journal articles from the American Psychologist. Short video segments from popular movies with ratings no higher than PG-13 will be used to illustrate pertinent points throughout the presentation. No known potential risks are associated with the materials.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to describe at least three models of collaborating with primary care providers, ranging from coordinated care to fully integrated care.
• Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the professionals and settings of primary care medicine, the scope of integrated primary care services, and the patient-based advantages of integrated primary care.
• Participants will be able to explain the salient roles of psychology in primary care settings and the potential challenges and ethical pitfalls associated with these roles.
• Participants will be able to describe how the provision of services in an integrated care model differs from the traditional behavioral healthcare delivery model.

Presenter Information

Dr. Biggs received his B.A. in psychology from Hanover College in 1984, his M.S. in agency counseling from Indiana State University in 1985, and his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Indiana State University in 1989. He has been a licensed psychologist and Health Service Provider in Psychology (HSPP) in Indiana since 1990 focusing on rural behavioral health, clinical health psychology, and primary care psychology. 

Dr. Biggs began his career in rural community mental health and later joined Union Hospital (Terre Haute) as its consultation-liaison and medical rehabilitation psychologist. He also served as the Behavioral Science Coordinator for the Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency. In that role, he participated in the training of family medicine residents and supervised clinical and counseling psychology doctoral students in integrated primary care settings. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the Counseling Psychology (inactive) and Clinical Psychology departments at Indiana State University since 1992.

He is the former Chairperson of the Indiana State Psychology Board and a member of the Indiana Psychological Association. He currently treats outpatients at Murphy, Urban & Associates, a private psychology practice located in Terre Haute.

Video Homestudy Format

CE’s for this homestudy training will be earned through completing the following tasks:

• Watch the presentation video and review all provided documents in their entirety.
• Pass the post-test questionnaire with at least 80% correct.

A program evaluation form will be provided to all who registered following the training. Please be sure to complete this form since your feedback helps direct future CE programming from our organization.

Registration Cost

This cost includes video links, materials, and tests required to obtain CE’s. Your CE certificate will be made available to you upon successful completion of the training (80% or higher on exam).

National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NPTC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.