Good people cannot do a full and complete job when serving the masters of numerical economics.
This is actually one reason why the VA works better than private insurance/providers in many instances, there are less hoops between the pt and actual rendering of care. There can be a wait in some instances and sometimes a drive to get services, but the service actually happens. In the private insurance world so many people are shut out up front that it is a battle of attrition.
Now through years of new "regulations", the differences in mental health providers has largely disappeared in the minds of the public.
Citation?
If anything, I'd posit the public is MORE aware of training differences because the healthcare system have forced them to jump through more hoops to receive care.
...innovation should not be something any of us should fear.
Innovation is great. Throwing a bunch of classes together, calling it a degree, and then trying to manufacture a demand is not innovative….it is predatory.
People seeking those degrees are adults and I for one am not in a position to be their guardian or worse, their guidance counselor. They have an opportunity to prove themselves and that is okay for me.
I'm in complete agreement that as an adult a person should be able to make their own decisions. The caveat is that the information should be presented to them accurately and without bias. I don't think that is happening with this "new" and (many would argue worthless) degree.
They spend their money at their own peril - just like the rest of the world in almost every aspect of employment and its intersection with economics.
Do you know who uses this argument….people who go out of their way to prey on people who don't know what they don't know. The sales guy who sells an elderly couple an overpriced insurance plan. The mortgage lender who targets fringe customers to get the commission while knowing they have no feasible way to afford the variable %-rate when it changes in 3-5yrs. The "counselor" aka sales woman who is pitching a 'for profit' education to a first generation learner who doesn't know that those "schools" are a ripoff. All of these instances are predatory, which is how I view the DBH.
The degree doesn't lead to a higher licensure or even a real certification or similar, yet it costs $95k.
$15,710 (9 credit hours) x 6 semesters (54 total credit hours) = $94,260 + tuition increases + living expenses, etc.
Whatever happens will be a change in how the system works - noting I am not the systems guardian either. Change is sometimes difficult to understand, even resented or feared. That fear and resentment is a reflection of the shadow of change all of us see in the mirror - as it places doubt in our own minds about our own decisions. I am not sure that is all bad. The DBH is not the boogie man no matter how much anyone want it to be.
That is just psychobabble nonsense.
An actual training program would have facts and research to support it, not colorful language that doesn't mean diddly squat at the end of the day. If someone is going to spend $95,000+ I'd hope that they had a good reason and not just to be called, "Doctor"…and still be restricted to billing as a mid-level.
