ABSTRACT
This chapter approaches behavioral health from a systems point of view rather than the more traditional behavioral medical designation, because it is important to identify with a larger body of information and practice than simply that of medicine. Further, the usual connotation of “multidisciplinary” is not used because that labeling implies the utilization of skills of more than one professional discipline. Each discipline is more than a body of knowledge and an accumulation of skills. We live in a world of systems. Sociologists recognize at least six such systems: the social system, the political system, the economic system, the educational system, the religious system, and the domestic system. In addition and in permutations, other systems obviously exist as well.
