Behavioral Health (Clinical), DBH
ASU Health - Clinical, Behavioral Health Consultant, Behavioral health provider, Chronic disease management, Collaborative, Integrated Care, Integrated behavioral health, Integrated primary care, Interprofessional, Lifestyle Medicine, Reverse primary/behavioral integration, Team-based Healthcare
Propel your career and gain skills to grow as an innovative behavioral health provider. You'll learn to provide integrated health care and meet the demands of value-based care. Thrive in the evolving health care landscape while making a meaningful impact on local communities, patient populations and health care systems.
The Doctor of Behavioral Health with a clinical concentration is a global, interdisciplinary degree program, open to you whether you are a domestic or international student. This program offers you an innovative curriculum and an applied research project based on implementation science.
Integrated health care is a team-based, coordinated approach that addresses medical, behavioral and lifestyle issues with the goal of promoting positive behavioral changes. If you have completed clinical training and have supervised clinical experience, the clinical concentration is tailored for you. You practice within the scope of your state-issued clinical license in this concentration.
The curriculum addresses:
- barriers to patient access
- the problem of poor health outcomes
- rising health care costs
Your learning experience offers innovative courses led by experienced faculty, collaborative interactions with peers, and written assignments that reflect the style of clinical and business proposals. The culminating project focuses on clinical quality improvements in an integrated care setting. The project addresses components such as a primary care clinic's clinical, operational and financial challenges by applying the quality improvement model taught in the program to solve key problems.
As a graduate of the clinical concentration, you are positioned to achieve the Quintuple Aim in health care:
- cost savings
- health equity
- improved health care team experience
- improved patient experience of care
- population health management
This program of study does not provide a pathway to licensure.
- College/school:
College of Health Solutions
- Location: Online
- STEM-OPT extension eligible: No
60 credit hours including the required applied project course (IBC 793)
Required Core (15 credit hours) Concentration (12 credit hours) Electives or Research (27 credit hours) Culminating Experience (6 credit hours) Additional Curriculum Information
HCD 501 Population Health Data Management and Analysis (3)
HSC 614 Quality and Performance Measurement, Improvement and Incentives in Health Care (3)
HSC 686 Academic Writing for Health Sciences (3)
HSC 720 Entrepreneurship and Interdisciplinary Health Systems (3)
IBC 611 Population-based Integrated Health Management (3)
IBC 601 Models of Health Care (3)
IBC 603 Brief Interventions in Integrated Health Care (3)
IBC 604 Clinical Medicine/Pathophysiology (3)
IBC 608 Psychopharmacology for the Health Care Providers (3)
IBC 793 Applied Project (6)
Students who enter the doctoral program with a master's degree in a related discipline may count up to 15 credit hours from the master's degree toward the total credit hours, with program approval.
General university admission requirements:
All students are required to meet general
university admission requirements.
U.S.
applicants | International
applicants | English
proficiency
Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the College of Health Solutions.
Applicants must have earned a master's degree in any field from a regionally accredited institution.
Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the applicable master's degree program.
All applicants must submit:
- graduate admission application and application fee
- official transcripts
- personal statement
- acknowledgment of program policies
- copy of the applicant's license or license eligibility
- one reference (professional)
- resume or curriculum vitae
- proof of English proficiency
Additional Application Information
An applicant whose native language is not English must provide proof of English proficiency regardless of their current residency.
Applicants who have a master's degree in counseling, family therapy, nursing, PA/NP, occupational health or social work, among others, are encouraged to apply. Students in the clinical concentration are required to be licensed or license-eligible to practice in a clinical field. The most competitive candidates are master's degree-level professionals who are either currently employed or have direct patient care experience in a clinical capacity in an integrated health care organization.
"Licensed" and "license-eligible" are terms defining a license to practice that is issued by a state licensing board (e.g., Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners, Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners, Arizona Board of Physician Assistants). Examples include license-eligible master's degree-level behavioral clinician, licensed master's degree-level behavioral clinician, and master's degree-level licensed medical or ancillary health care provider (nurse, nurse practitioner, dietitian, occupational therapist). The DBH program does not offer any pathway to licensure.
The personal statement should indicate the applicant's interest in the program, their career goals and how the degree program aligns with those goals, how the applicant believes medical and behavioral providers can work collaboratively in an integrated health care system, and how the applicant plans to navigate the academic rigor required in a doctoral-level program.
Contact information of at least one reference is required. The reference is contacted via email to respond to a series of questions about the applicant. Examples of appropriate references include:
- a supervisor who can assess the applicant's clinical or professional performance (preferred)
- a faculty member from the applicant's master's degree program who is well-acquainted with the applicant's professional practice or academic achievement
- other professional (who is not a relative), such as a licensed behavioral health clinician, medical provider or other health care provider
ASU offers this program in an online format with multiple enrollment sessions throughout the year. Applicants may view the program’s ASU Online page for program descriptions and to request more information.
| Session | Modality | Deadline | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session A/C | Online | 06/15 | Priority |
| Session | Modality | Deadline | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session A/C | Online | 11/15 | Priority |
| Session | Modality | Deadline | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session A/C | Online | 04/15 | Priority |
Program learning outcomes identify what a student will learn or be able to do upon completion of their program. This program’s learning outcomes include the following:
- Employ evidence-based medical and behavioral health practices to design interventions for conditions that have a high impact on primary care practice.
- Collaboratively demonstrate how primary care organizations can initiate changes leading to substantial improvements in access, patient and provider satisfaction and quality of clinical care.
- Design and execute a quality improvement project in an integrated care setting.
Graduates of the clinical concentration program have the skills to move into clinical leadership and management positions across health care settings. They are well prepared to develop and manage programs related to integrated behavioral health care.
Potential job titles include:
- behavioral health provider, consultant or specialist in primary care and other medical settings
- CEO of integrated care
- clinical team manager
- director of clinical services or operations
- health and wellness manager
- integrated care clinical provider
- integrated care manager or consultant
- integrated health care manager or specialist
- wellness program administrator
College of Health Solutions
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602-496-3300
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