PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dsm-5
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Lecture #2 history of the stress concept/the emotional & intellectual basis of. Ontario"s mental health care system: with the current mental health care system, checklist diagnosis is performed. The human element of the patient is sometimes lost: a lot of psychiatry is evidence-based with structured assessments, to access mental health care, the individual must go to a medical doctor. If you go in with symptoms that may resemble depression, they may hand you a prescription for depression: lately, there are some schools in the u. s. that don"t even train their psychiatrists to perform therapy. In ontario, mental health services are generally not paid for except under. Ohip/unless one is part of a university or college: the going rate for a psychologist is /hour, the waitlists for psychiatrists are long. Often, it takes months to get an appointment: people who don"t have the funds are limited in the types of care that they can access.
