I would add that it may be necessary to find additional ways of communicating with mental health providers that do not involve financial payments to those providers by the client. High costs are a major barrier to seeking help that is also not properly addressed.
Ben, great piece, especially about needing to capture the moment. Could you comment on the role of changing medicine's 4 centuries old biomedical paradigm to a biopsychosocial paradigm and how that would facilitate rising to the moment, specifically what that would entail.
I'd like to imagine we could stop focusing on the short-term and move toward long-term interventions that build culture and community around well-being. So much time is spent alleviating short-term symptoms, without appropriate focus on longer-term impact. Moving this upstream allows for more systemic thining and action rather than the band-aid over the bullet wound approach.
I would add that it may be necessary to find additional ways of communicating with mental health providers that do not involve financial payments to those providers by the client. High costs are a major barrier to seeking help that is also not properly addressed.
The valued and valuable role of lived experience knowledge and impact is missing here. Don't count out listening to persons served. See SAMHSA's Office of Recovery Inclusion Policy: https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/inclusion-policy-tc.pdf.
Ben, great piece, especially about needing to capture the moment. Could you comment on the role of changing medicine's 4 centuries old biomedical paradigm to a biopsychosocial paradigm and how that would facilitate rising to the moment, specifically what that would entail.
Keep up the good work!
I'd like to imagine we could stop focusing on the short-term and move toward long-term interventions that build culture and community around well-being. So much time is spent alleviating short-term symptoms, without appropriate focus on longer-term impact. Moving this upstream allows for more systemic thining and action rather than the band-aid over the bullet wound approach.