National Institute of Behavioral Medicine
About Us
About NIBM
Who are we?
The National Institute of Behavioral Medicine (NIBM) is leading the advancement of behavioral medicine, including mental health and addiction treatment services, as an integrated practice in healthcare. We uphold high standards and offer micro-certifications to educational institutions and practitioners to ensure they are highly qualified to support patients’ path toward recovery.
Our role includes establishing educational curriculum and training standards while administering a comprehensive certification exam. Through our commitment to excellence, we strive to improve the quality of mental healthcare services and support the growth of the field.
With National Board Certification, the public can confidently choose professionals with the expertise and skills to help patients reach their recovery objectives.
Professional Development & Growth
Enhance Healing & Recovery
Emphasis on Health & Wellness
Trauma-Informed Focus
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower educational institutions and organizations by:
+ Improving the quality of education and training for enhanced quality of care
+ Improving educational outcomes as it relates to workforce needs
+ Validate workforce knowledge and skills
+ Ensuring education and training are current to workforce needs
+ Building a resilient workforce by fostering resilience and well-being
+ Helping individuals channel their full potential
Our Values
NIBM believes in recognizing each person as an individual full of potential for growth, paving the way for a fulfilling and joyful life. We equip institutions, organizations, and practitioners with the tools to adopt a holistic approach to support individuals while fostering well-being to improve their overall functionality.
Our Core Beliefs
Trauma-Informed Care
We believe to be an effective healer or helper, your service must be based on trauma-sensitive principles for healing, recovery, and personal growth. These principles have evolved into a language and thought process incorporating trauma sensitivity, which has been applied in multiple organization and institution settings with observable benefits.
Mind-Body Connection
Helping approaches should integrate the application of solutogenesis to assist individuals on a path toward recovery and health with optimized levels of functional well-being. This is why education and training should incorporate the integrative disciples of behavioral medicine, including traditional cognitive (top-down) and button-up approaches to healing that focus on body awareness and regulation.
Resilience and Health are Cultivated
People have the resilient capacity to heal and recover. People also have the ability to go beyond recovery by optimizing their wellness and well-being. When individuals are supported in nurturing resilience and health, they are empowered with an inner healing potential.
Empowerment
Practical and effective strategies for helping individuals focus on achieving their desired lives are essential. This effort hinges on professionals who empower clients to build resilience and foster well-being as they navigate the paths of recovery, healing, and personal growth
Our Core Beliefs
Holistic Approaches
Holistic approaches seek to address the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of helping people.
This holistic approach can be fostered with resilience, health, wellness, and well-being with a focus on psychoeducation, body awareness, self-regulation, and social regulation, which allow for a greater capacity to heal, recover, grow, and succeed in all areas of life.
Post-Traumatic Growth
Everyone has the ability to adapt and bounce back from adversity. But they also have the capacity to grow in a transformative way and become stronger than before. This means that effective approaches help people perceive every challenge in life as an opportunity for self-transformation and growth, which allows them to come out of a disaster or adversity stronger than before.
Holistic Approach to Well-Being
Professionals often feel the emotional weight of the individuals they assist, which can lead to secondary traumatic stress. Supporting individuals in their journey toward health, wellness, and resilience means enhancing all facets of their well-being—physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual. Embracing a holistic approach allows people to restore their sense of wholeness and well-being, ultimately leading to sustained success in their careers.
Life-Long Journey
Sustaining recovery, health, wellness, and resiliency throughout life requires life-long practice. However, this process is not nonlinear, which means that people will experience occasional setbacks. However, setbacks or relapses are not signs of failure but are instead part of the process of growth and learning.
Forge a Culture of
Health and Wellness
Enhance your skills in behavioral medicine to forge a culture of health, wellness, and well-being to foster healing and recovery for individuals seeking your professional help.