ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on psychological assessment. It discusses the importance of the resulting information and information from other sources in the evaluation of behavioral health services within primary care settings. The chapter also discusses psychological assessment in integrated primary care may occur at the individual level and at the group or population level with particular attention to how behavioral health personnel (BHPs) can apply the knowledge to their practice in integrated primary care. The chapter discusses that BHPs understand the primary care frame of reference regarding screening, assessing, and treating conditions and why this is so important to pursuing the Quadruple Aim. Treatment monitoring in primary care often involves using official measures of one's symptoms, functioning, or some biological metric. Most BHPs working in primary care will use self-report measures to monitor treatment progress, although biological metrics will be used when providing behavioral medicine services.
