ABSTRACT
A history and description of co-located integrated behavioral/primary care is extensively delineated in Behavioral Integrative Care (O’Donohue, Byrd, Cummings, & Henderson, 2005). Forty-six years passed from the first co-located demonstration project conducted by the senior author in 1963 and the adoption of the concept by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2009. After resisting and even disdaining co-located care for those decades, the adoption by the APA was largely due to the effort of the then APA president James Bray (Bray, 2011), even though it had been unsuccessfully embraced a few years earlier by APA president Ronald Levant. Once adopted, the scurrying to get on board has led to a spate of deficient and even counterfeit projects, threatening to discredit the concept. Amazingly, many who suddenly jumped on board were the very colleagues who earlier rejected the model, and now even have the audacity to claim having invented it. On the other hand, the Biodyne Model of integrated care has 46 years of proven research and successful practice.
