Changing Our Behavior to Prevent Chronic Diseases: Behavioral Medicine's Biggest Challenge

Medical scientists are searching relentlessly for more effective ways to prevent or cure cancer, heart disease, and many other serious chronic diseases. While hoping for breakthroughs that will simply make these life-threatening problems go away, many of us overlook the important role that our own behavior plays in whether we stay healthy, get sick, or die young. Our physical health depends to a great extent on our own health behaviors — whether, for instance, we stop smoking, get enough exercise, stick to a healthy diet, and maintain our mental health.

Behavioral Health vs Mental Health

When distinguishing between behavioral health and mental health, it is important to remember that behavioral health is a blanket term that includes mental health. Behavioral health looks at how behaviors impact someone’s health — physical and mental.

Brightline’s behavioral telehealth platform is giving kids—and their caregivers—peace of mind

At Brightline, which launched in 2019, Allen is making children’s behavioral health accessible via virtual therapy sessions and online coaching programs. Even before the pandemic began, children in the United States were in distress.

Four Ways The Behavioral Health Industry Can Meet The Mental Health Services Need

As leaders in the behavioral health industry, we can help struggling Americans through this crisis by adapting how we approach treatment to serve those who need it most. Specifically, this means making care more affordable and available in low-income and hard-hit minority communities, offering more personalized treatment, and becoming flexible enough to meet a challenge we’ve never experienced before.

Interventions to Support Behavioral Self-management of Chronic Diseases

Identifying the most effective methods by which self-management programs can be delivered and scaled for use at the population level should continue to be a priority.

Omada integrates behavioral health into chronic condition management platform

Chronic condition management platform Omada Health announced Wednesday it would include behavioral health support in its existing programs for diabetes prevention and management, hypertension, and musculoskeletal care.

Translating Behavioral Science into Action: Report of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Behavioral Science Workgroup

Behavioral science can offer critical insights into the nature of mental illness and health and the processes and interventions that can prevent illness or lead from disorder to remission, recovery, and rehabilitation. It is clear, however, that the field, which has yielded great practical benefits for education, the military and industry, as well as many health areas, has much more to offer in mental health.

Trump administration halts ‘evidence-based’ program that evaluates behavioral health therapies

The Trump administration has abruptly halted work on a highly regarded program to help physicians, families, state and local government agencies, and others separate effective “evidence-based” treatments for substance abuse and behavioral health problems from worthless interventions.

What Is Behavioral Science & How Does It Relate to Public Health?

Social and behavioral science is the study of how human behavior impacts personal thoughts, decisions, interactions, and actions. A developed understanding of human behavior can serve as a powerful tool for those who wish to influence people’s health choices.