Behavioral Health and Primary Care: A Status Report

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It is 2016 and time to take stock and consider where we in primary care settings, and those in psychiatry and behavioral health professions working with us, are headed. It has been 14 years since the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reversed its previous decision and began recommending screening for depression. In 2009 and again this year, the task force issued updates to this recommendation that emphasized its applicability to adolescents and pregnant and postpartum women and the importance of practice resources to actively manage care of those who screen positive for depression.