VA Mental Health Provider Venting / Problem-solving / Peer Support Thread

[psy.d. 2021]

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https://www.reddit.com/r/VeteransAffairs/s/9adVwq33nm

Imagine EVERY SC VETERAN would be required to seek therapy for MH? You think it's bad now...wow

 

[Sanman]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VeteransAffairs/s/9adVwq33nm

Imagine EVERY SC VETERAN would be required to seek therapy for MH? You think it's bad now...wow

Seems like job security to me. Move into PP and fill any empty slot with veterans begging to treatment to keep their SC.

Honestly, I have no problem with them requiring treatment (and compliance) to remain SC. Too many folks with SC and no record of any symptoms or treatment in their clinical record outside of compensation paperwork.

 

[Fan_of_Meehl]

Seems like job security to me. Move into PP and fill any empty slot with veterans begging to treatment to keep their SC.

Honestly, I have no problem with them requiring treatment (and compliance) to remain SC. Too many folks with SC and no record of any symptoms or treatment in their clinical record outside of compensation paperwork.

Hell, why not just make it official in DSM-6:

Service-Connection Deficit Disorder, Chronic, Severe, With Pseudo-Psychotic Features*

*"Doc...I see shadow people..."

 

[psy.d. 2021]

Seems like job security to me. Move into PP and fill any empty slot with veterans begging to treatment to keep their SC.

Honestly, I have no problem with them requiring treatment (and compliance) to remain SC. Too many folks with SC and no record of any symptoms or treatment in their clinical record outside of compensation paperwork.

Job security for sure. So you can spend your days working with people that don't want to be seen. Personally I'd rather not.

 

[Sanman]

Job security for sure. So you can spend your days working with people that don't want to be seen. Personally I'd rather not.

I already do.

 

[cara susanna]

https://www.reddit.com/r/VeteransAffairs/s/9adVwq33nm

Imagine EVERY SC VETERAN would be required to seek therapy for MH? You think it's bad now...wow

Where does it say that?

And umm, wow, that thread is really full of misconceptions about PTSD and the active episode of care model.

 

[Sanman]

Where does it say that?

And umm, wow, that thread is really full of misconceptions about PTSD and the active episode of care model.

Point 2 in Gade's testimony. Not clear in that reddit post

"requiring veterans receive mental health treatment if they get disability compensation for a mental health disorder"

 

[cara susanna]

Oh God, that would be awful.

 

[psy.d. 2021]

Oh God, that would be awful.

Yeah that's what I'm focused on.

It is clear there are some misconceptions in that post and comments about the episodes of care model and PTSD treatment.

 

[Sanman]

Yeah that's what I'm focused on.

It is clear there are some misconceptions in that post and comments about the episodes of care model and PTSD treatment.

It would depend on the definition of treatment. EBP, any individual psychotherapy, groups, or see psychiatrist every 3 mths for a med refill?

 

[cara susanna]

It would depend on the definition of treatment. EBP, any individual psychotherapy, groups, or see psychiatrist every 3 mths for a med refill?

But I imagine that any psychiatrist worth their salt would continuously recommend therapy to address PTSD.