"This is about equity for mental health care," Jessica Rentz, a Kaiser therapist in Fontana, said in a statement released by the National Union of Healthcare Workers. "We want to be with our patients, not on a
More than 2,400Kaiser Permanentepsychologists, therapists, social workers, and othermental health workersin Southern California began an open-endedstrikeMonday over increased workloads and staffing shortages that their union said have created a “substandard” system of care. The National Union of Healt...
I find it alarming that the head of the agency responsible for holding Kaiser accountable to State mental health parity laws might be considering legitimate Kaiser’s cry of therapist shortages. Perhaps the distribution of therapists is not uniform across the United States. But there are more than...
“[My therapist] is wonderful. She guides me, encourages me, and helps me resolve deeply buried issues. I trust her completely.” "I would 10/10 highly recommend Envision Counseling to anyone that just needs a little help understanding themselves and does not know where to begin.” ...
"People carry it differently," Love explains. "Everyone has to come to their own conclusions when to address it. One of my favorite [TV shows] of all time is 'The Sopranos.' I'm sitting there watching it, and James Gandolfini is going to see a therapist. He's telling her, '...
In situations like these, children and parents can benefit from the continuum of care provided by SBHCs. Throughout the school year, mental health workers are provided ample opportunities to monitor the progress of an intervention. “The ongoing process actually involved the therapist at the...
He had never before talked to a mental health therapist. And on the advice of a friend who was a doctor, Sue did not take him to a mental hospital because of the stigma. Tom could not work in sales again. Instead, he rotated through various jobs, usually in another town because it ...
Kaiser Permanente, among the biggest healthcare systems in the United States, used the APA Application Evaluation Framework to select six mobile health applications to provide, free of charge, to its members (Mordecai et al., 2021). Similarly, the New York City Department of Health and Mental ...
She wrote a blog called "A Day in the Life of a Generalist Department Therapist: An internal dialogue." She says the problem in part is that health care systems are using a medical model as a mental health model and that doesn't work. ...
"What we're tapping into is the existing relationship people have with their Kaiser Permanente therapist. We know that our patients are more likely to use these digital resources if their provider refers them," said Don Mordecai, MD, national leader for mental health and wellness at Kaiser Perm...