A discussion of the undervaluing and professional capture of psychotherapy in Australia.
Australia has made a huge investment in mental health through subsidised medical and psychological services in primary care. However, subsidised psychotherapy of any degree of sophistication is rarely available in the right dose, at the right time, or delivered by people that have advanced training in psychotherapy. Indeed, in Australia psychotherapy is not part of the public discourse about treatment and is often conflated with or presumed to be the same as psychology. This paper discusses the Australian funding context and argues that psychotherapy needs to be valued and assume its rightful position as essential ‘treatment’ commensurate with the value placed on medicine and medicines.
Lakeman, R. (2021). Psychology belongs to everyone, but what about psychotherapy? A discussion of the undervaluing and professional capture of psychotherapy in Australia. The Science of Psychotherapy Magazine, Feb 2021, 41-77.
Read the paper: https://www.testandcalc.com//Richard/resources/SoP_February_2021_pp40-47Lakeman.pdf
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