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Foundations of Behavioral Health

  • Comprehensive discussion of critical issues in mental health services delivery, including integration with primary care

  • Brings the perspectives of public health (population) and behavioral health (alcohol, drug use, and mental disorders) to the field of mental health services?

  • Includes discussion questions for use in the classroom

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Population-Based Behavioral Health

    • Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson
    Pages 1-13
  3. The Role of Implementation Science in Behavioral Health

    • Oliver T. Massey, Enya B. Vroom
    Pages 101-118
  4. Challenges with Behavioral Health Services Research Data

    • Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin
    Pages 119-137
  5. Policies and Practices to Support School Mental Health

    • Katie Eklund, Lauren Meyer, Joni Splett, Mark Weist
    Pages 139-161
  6. Behavioral Health and the Juvenile Justice System

    • Richard Dembo, Jessica Faber, Jennifer Cristiano, Ralph J. DiClemente, Asha Terminello
    Pages 163-182
  7. Women’s Behavioral Health Needs

    • Marion Ann Becker, Vickie Ann Lynn
    Pages 183-204
  8. The Behavioral Health of American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Risk and Resiliency

    • Julie A. Baldwin, Emery R. Eaves, Betty G. Brown, Kristan Elwell, Heather J. Williamson
    Pages 205-230
  9. Older Adults

    • Donna Cohen, Andrew Krajewski
    Pages 231-252
  10. Behavioral Health Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

    • Marc J. Tassé, Elizabeth A. Perkins, Tammy Jorgensen Smith, Richard Chapman
    Pages 253-272
  11. Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health

    • Sara Haack, Jennifer M. Erickson, Matthew Iles-Shih, Anna Ratzliff
    Pages 273-300
  12. Rural Behavioral Health Services

    • Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson
    Pages 301-319
  13. Pharmacy Services in Behavioral Health

    • Carol A. Ott
    Pages 337-350
  14. Global Services, Systems, and Policy

    • Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin
    Pages 351-376
  15. Correction to: Foundations of Behavioral Health

    • Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson
    Pages C1-C1
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 377-386

About this book

This comprehensive book examines the organization, financing, delivery, and outcomes of behavioral health (i.e., alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health) services from both U.S. and global perspectives. Addressing the need for more integrative and collaborative approaches in public health and behavioral health initiatives, the book covers the fundamental issues in behavioral health, including epidemiology, insurance and financing, health inequities, implementation sciences, lifespan issues, cultural responsiveness, and policy.


Featuring insightful research from scholars in an interdisciplinary range of academic and professional fields, chapters fall into three distinct sections:



  1. Overview: Outlines the defining characteristics of behavioral health services and identifies significant challenges in the field
  2. At-Risk Populations: Explores critical issues for at-risk populations in need of behavioral health services, including children in school environments, youth in juvenile justice systems, and persons with developmental disabilities, among others
  3. Services Delivery: Presents a rationale for greater integration of health and behavioral health services, and contextualizes this explanation within global trends in behavioral health policy, systems, and services

An in-depth textbook for graduate students studying public health, behavioral health, social work policy, and medical sociology, as well as a useful reference for behavioral health professionals and policy makers, Foundations of Behavioral Health provides a global perspective for practice and policy in behavioral health. It promotes better understanding of the importance of integrating population health and behavioral health services, with an eye towards improving and sustaining public health and behavioral health from national, regional, and global perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Child and Family Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Bruce Lubotsky Levin

  • Behavioral Health Concentration, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Bruce Lubotsky Levin

  • Research and Education Unit, Shimberg Health Sciences Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Ardis Hanson

About the editors

Bruce Lubotsky Levin, DrPH, MPH, is Associate Professor & Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, Department of Child & Family Studies, University of South Florida (USF) College of Behavioral & Community Sciences. He is also Associate Professor & Head, Behavioral Health Concentration, USF College of Public Health. He is Co-PI & Director of Curriculum, USF Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Drug Abuse (NIH-NIDA grant) for the past seven years. Dr. Levin is Co-Author and Senior Editor of nine other textbooks, including Introduction to Public Health for Pharmacists, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2018); Mental Health Informatics (Oxford University Press, 2013); Mental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective, Third Edition (Oxford University Press, 2010); and A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health (Springer, 2010). Dr. Levin’s research focus is the study of alcohol, drug abuse, & mental disorders from a public health or population perspective, translational research, behavioral health services research, and policy.

Ardis Hanson, PhD, MLIS, is the Assistant Director of Research and Education at the Shimberg Health Sciences Library at the University of South Florida. Dr. Hanson has over 25 years of experience as a research librarian and has published extensively in behavioral health services, policy, and research. Her research focus is on language and social interaction, that is, how language is used in everyday practice to negotiate claims and identities, particularly in how behavioral health policy is created.

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