We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists | Letter
Dr Jennifer Poole says a less medicalised approach using therapists other than consultant psychiatrists would be more effective in the long term
Regarding your article (Scottish NHS boards pay up to £837 an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis, 7 October), the solution to this increasingly untenable situation is a change of approach to mental health. Psychiatrists (medically qualified doctors who go on to treat emotional and mental health issues with medications) are necessarily focused on diagnosis of a “disorder” as an illness in the person. However, there is little evidence that this is effective with mental health issues in the vast majority of cases.
Studies have shown that a person-centred, non-diagnosis-led and least-medicalised approach is more effective, quicker and with fewer clinical returns over the longer term. Such an approach does not require consultant psychiatrists, but can be delivered in the main by other therapists, with minimum referral to psychiatrists in a minority of cases.
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Dr Jennifer Poole says a less medicalised approach using therapists other than consultant psychiatrists would be more effective in the long term
Regarding your article (Scottish NHS boards pay up to £837 an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis, 7 October), the solution to this increasingly untenable situation is a change of approach to mental health. Psychiatrists (medically qualified doctors who go on to treat emotional and mental health issues with medications) are necessarily focused on diagnosis of a “disorder” as an illness in the person. However, there is little evidence that this is effective with mental health issues in the vast majority of cases.
Studies have shown that a person-centred, non-diagnosis-led and least-medicalised approach is more effective, quicker and with fewer clinical returns over the longer term. Such an approach does not require consultant psychiatrists, but can be delivered in the main by other therapists, with minimum referral to psychiatrists in a minority of cases.
Continue reading...
By Guardian Staff
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