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• Title: Integrating Psychologists Into the Canadian Health Care System: The Example of Australia (Commentary) (Report)
• Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 269 KB

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Mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders make up a substantial component of the disease burden of Canada and Australia, (1,2) with over 10% of the population having a disorder in any one year. If left untreated, such disorders lead to substantial personal misery, disability, functional impairment, disruption to family, increased health care costs, and increased rates of suicide. However, research shows that these disorders are responsive to certain well-defined psychological treatments, (3,4) suggesting that the use of such evidence-based therapies is one avenue whereby a large proportion of the disease burden could be averted. (5) For example, the evidence-based guidelines of the National Instititute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK recommend depression-focused psychological treatment (problem-solving therapy, brief cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] and counseling) or serotonergic medication for mild-to-moderate depression; and combined serotonergic medication and CBT for severe or treatment-resistant depression. (6) Such evidence and recommendations leave policy-makers in both countries with the question of how best to provide broad community access to evidence-based psychological treatments. In this paper, we compare the Canadian and Australian approaches to improving access to psychological treatments in primary care. We believe that such a comparison is timely, given that Canada has launched a national mental health commission to inform the development of sound public policies and to improve service delivery. (7) Comparability of Canadian and Australian systems

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