Frank V. deGruy

This article introduces psychologists to the fundamental changes taking place in primary care and to the various roles that psychologists can play in the new health care system.

Special patient populations can present unique opportunities and challenges to integrating primary care and behavioral health services. This article focuses on four special populations: children with special needs, persons with severe and persistent mental illness, refugees, and deaf people who communicate via sign language.

This article reviews how new research approaches, beyond the contributions of traditional controlled trials, are needed to inform integrated behavioral health.

Special issue of the APA journal American Psychologist, Vol. 69, No. 4, May–June 2014. It describes the most common emerging models of integrated primary care, the roles of psychologists within those models, and how certain important subsets of patients are cared for in primary care.