Integrative Care: Primary Care and Mental Health

The Integrative Care network is an online professional learning community designed to increase the knowledge and implementation of integrative care involving primary and mental health care across Wyoming.

Integrative care is the care a patient experiences as a result of a team of primary care and behavioral health clinicians, working together with patients and families, using a systematic and cost-effective approach to provide patient-centered care for a defined population. This care may address mental health and substance abuse conditions, health behaviors (including their contribution to chronic medical illnesses), life stressors and crises, stress-related physical symptoms, and ineffective patterns of health care utilization.

Network participants include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, counselors and others involved in primary care and mental health services.

UW ECHO in Integrative Care is a collaboration with the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, with funding by a generous grant from the McMurry Foundation.

Session information

Sessions are held on Wednesdays, bi-weekly from 12:00-1:00 pm MT via Zoom.  

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Sessions

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This session will present information about mental health services available through the Veterans’ Health Care System. Different types of providers and their roles in mental health care will be introduced. The continuum of Mental Health Care in the VA system will be presented, and the seminar will close with greater emphasis on our integrated care model between primary care and mental health.

Presenter: Margaret Legarreta, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Chief of Mental Health, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

This session will provide an overview of the impact suicide has on the veteran population. There will be a focus on the unique risk factors, contributors, warning signs, and protective factors for Veteran suicide. 

Presenter: Kayla Stevens, LCSW, Suicide Prevention Team and
Community Engagement & Partnerships Coordinator (CEPC), Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

Session description coming soon.

Presenter: Stephanie Stacy, PhD, Psychologist, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

This session will provide an overview of what chronic pain is and how it differs in Veteran populations. A focus on how chronic pain impacts individuals from a mental health perspective will be discussed as well. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of social connectedness and its impact on chronic pain.

Presenter: Margaret Legarreta, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Chief of Mental Health, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

Session description coming soon.

Presenter: May L. Nara, Psychiatric APRN, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

Session description coming soon.

Presenter: Marian Amundsen, PsyD, Psychologist, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

This seminar will provide an overview of healthy and impaired sleep and describe the clinical presentation of insomnia. The remainder of the seminar will focus on behavioral approaches to improving sleep, as well as a brief discussion regarding common co-morbidities that Veterans deal with that impact sleep.

Presenter: Margaret Legarreta, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Chief of Mental Health, Sheridan, Wyoming VA Health Care System

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