An Overview and Assessment of Behavioral Health Services

Behavioral health services are health care organizations that provide a variety of medical services, mental health services, and substance abuse. An individual may need many types of behavioral health services. Behavioral health includes mental health, psychotherapy, marital and family counseling, and treatment of addiction and includes services provided by social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, neurologists, and doctors.Behavioral health (BH) is a broad term that refers to treatments for substance abuse and mental health problems and treatments for mental and physical health and lifestyle problems (e.g. obesity, smoking, treatment adherence, self-hazard, ham, Family Impairment Affected Treatment).