Therapy at the Doctor’s, or Primary Care at the Therapist’s?
November 30th, 2010
Access to therapy and counseling is an important component of health care in its most basic sense. So how do we incorporate better access into our current system, which distinctly divides mental and physical health? Training primary care doctors in some of the mental health basics is one possibility. Currently, more than half of antidepressants are prescribed by medical doctors with no training in psychotherapy, which is recognized as the most effective depression treatment of any. In this case, patients really aren’t getting the mental health support they need. Some have proposed an inverse approach: integrating primary care into community behavioral health centers.
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the 1st place most ppl go to if they hav a problem is a physician so it makes sense to have them trained in the basic of mental health and also encourage them to direct the patients to a specialist.
this problem will not arise in the first place if people are aware of what the problem is.they will then proceed to the specialist and treatment can start sooner.
and speaking of treatment starting soon,I have myself heard of a lot of people paying the price by not identifying the problem quick enough.
There really is no perfect answer to this question but a bit of both would make sense. Primary health care professionals having knowledge of mental health and therapy centers having in-house primary health care professionals.
Well it would at least be nice if the different doctors would actually talk with each other about care needs. . .
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