Behavioral health describes the connection between behaviors and the health and well-being of the body, mind and spirit. This would include how behaviors like eating habits, drinking or exercising impact physical or mental health. Later, the term began to include behaviors that help people manage disease. Most recently, behavioral health incorporated mental health.
Other definitions for behavioral health illustrate how wide-reaching the term is.
As a discipline, behavioral health refers to mental health, psychiatric, marriage and family counseling and addictions treatment. At TFHC, Behavioral health also includes both mental health and substance use, encompassing a continuum of prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery support services. Please contact us for your specific needs. You may also visit our Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery website for more information at www.healandrecovery.com
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.
