Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation model (PCBH) is a psychological approach to population-based clinical health care that is simultaneously co-located, collaborative, and integrated within the primary care clinic. The goal of PCBH is to improve and promote overall health within the general population. This approach is important because approximately half of all patients in primary care present with psychiatric comorbidities, and 60% of psychiatric illness is treated in primary care.
Prison Industrial Complex. The Prison Industrial Complex is a system situated at the intersection of government and private interest. It uses prisons as a solution to social, political and economic problems.
Social Work in Prison. Social-work services have been offered in prisons for nearly a century and were advanced by the advocacy efforts of Kenneth Pray, the former dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work (now the School of Social Policy and Practice).evertheless, the social work with women inmates, inmates who are parents, and inmates with mental illness described within this entry comprises a good overview of the myriad activities involved with prison social work. The entry begins with a definition of prisons and a description of adult prison populations.