Enhance your ability to lead health care teams and integrate medical and behavioral health services with this graduate certificate. You’ll learn how to design and manage programs that support whole-person care, improving patient outcomes and system efficiency.
You’ll explore key concepts in integrated behavioral health management, including:
- Conduction cost and utilization analyses for integrated care.
- Enhancing patient and provider satisfaction while improving health outcomes.
- Lowering per capita health care costs through strategic management.
- Overseeing effective integration of medical and behavioral health integration.
How our two integrated behavioral health certificate programs compare
While both certificate programs prepare professionals for careers in integrated health care, each focuses on different aspects of the field.
This program equips current or aspiring health care managers with the skills to oversee and implement integrated care models. You’ll explore the financial, policy and operational strategies that drive the successful integration of behavioral and medical services.
ASU’s online graduate certificate in integrated behavioral health with a clinical concentration is designed for clinicians, including social workers, counselors, psychologists and allied health providers, who want to treat patients directly in primary care settings. This program emphasizes brief, evidence-based interventions and collaborative treatment planning among medical teams.
With the management certificate, you’ll gain the skills to design, implement and sustain integrated care systems. If you want to work directly with patients, the clinical certificate trains you to provide care in medical settings.
Arizona State University’s online integrated behavioral health management graduate certificate equips you with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage integrated care systems. Throughout this program, you’ll learn to navigate primary care models, funding structures and best practices in leading behavioral health integration.
This certificate is designed to train master’s-level health care managers (or aspiring health care managers) on the integration of medical and behavioral services. Throughout your courses, you’ll deep dive into behavioral health, business and financial topics to successfully manage people and practices in the field.
The College of Health Solutions faculty displays a high level of research expertise, focused on creating a better future for all. Our faculty are lifelong learners dedicated to improving health outcomes for the communities we serve. Some of their research focuses on:
- Discovering the impact of the environment and policy on food security and community health.
- Exploring mechanisms involved in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
- Harnessing big data to improve patient outcomes.
- Incorporating advanced technology to monitor and promote healthy lifestyles.
- Using state-of-the-art cognitive, behavioral and neuroscience techniques to study the components of human communication.
In the College of Health Solutions, students learn and prepare to become the health workforce of the future. Faculty and students also collaborate to research solutions to pressing global health challenges. Partnerships with the medical community offer students access to professional resources and networking opportunities with Mayo Clinic, Banner Health, HonorHealth, Dignity Health and more.
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Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the College of Health Solutions to apply to this online health care management certificate program.
You must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA in an applicable master's degree to qualify for the ASU Online integrated behavioral health management certificate program (grading scale is 4.00 = “A”).
All applicants must submit:
- The graduate admission application and application fee
- Official transcripts
- Up-to-date curriculum vitae or resume
- Proof of English language proficiency
- One letter of professional or academic recommendation
You can apply to the program with a previously earned master's degree from a regionally accredited institution. The following disciplines are preferred:
- Business or law (health care and business administration, economics or finance)
- Engineering (biomedical engineering)
- General science (biology or physiology)
- Health-related field (nursing, health policy or public health)
- Math or computer science (including statistics)
No, Arizona State University’s certificates and diplomas don’t specify whether you earn them online or in person. All certificates, diplomas and transcripts simply say “Arizona State University.”