behavioral health

American  

[bih-heyv-yer-uhl helth] / bɪˈheɪv yər əl ˈhɛlθ /

noun

1. the field of medicine concerned with a person’s activities or habits and how these affect physical, mental, and social well-being.

2. well-being as it relates to one’s activities and habits.

---

Etymology

Origin of behavioral health

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

“Two jobs, enlisting in the Guard and joining behavioral health, are both helping professions, and neither of them are ones where you can expect to get rich,” Vaughan said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rogers said she took a day off work and called every single psychologist or therapist she could find, both in-network with her insurance and out-of-network, and “literally nobody was accepting new patients for in-person care in the entire Seattle area. We got zero support because there is such a shortage with behavioral health for pediatrics.”

From The Wall Street Journal

For a time she took him to a St. Louis clinic run by SSM Health that offers behavioral health services.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bradley Peterson is President of Evolve Psychiatry Professional Corporation and serves as an advisor to Evolve Adolescent Behavioral Health, where he holds stock options.

From Science Daily

Then, late on a Tuesday night earlier this month, the county of Los Angeles informed the city of Santa Monica new tenants would be moving in soon and who they were: 49 patients with behavioral health issues enrolled in the county’s transitional housing program.

From Los Angeles Times