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I’ll echo what’s I’ve heard argued before, and I find convincing. Lack psychologists is not the cause of an increase in mental health problems any more than la
by _aavaa_ 3y ago
I’ll echo what’s I’ve heard argued before, and I find convincing.
Lack psychologists is not the cause of an increase in mental health problems any more than lack of doctors are the cause for an increase in broken bones.
Focusing on training more of them is to focus on the easy to medicate symptoms rather than the complex and varied root causes.
- Spivak 3y agoLack of psychologists is the cause of increasing untreated medical health problems in the exact way a lack of doctors leads to an increase in untreated illness. And given how many older adults have untreated mental health issues and just lived with them the work won't be wasted on a fly-by-night increase.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoI completely agree with you. My point was that the discussion is often framed such that lack of psychologists is causing a mental health crisis. Their shortage may be making it worse since people cannot be treater after they have issues, but it isn't causing the issue in the first place.
- hackeraccount 3y agoIf you paid "broken bone fixing doctors" more money would you get an increase in broken bones? I tend to think you would - though it'd probably come in the form of a definition change of just what a broken bone is.