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Article: The work of psychotherapy.(CULTURE NOTES)(Report)
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- Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Over this past summer, I read an article, "Medication Increasingly Replaces Psychotherapy, Study Finds," wherein the author, Denise Gellene (2008), reported that a study drawn from data gathered by the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey had shown that, "the percentage of patients who received psychotherapy fell to 28.9% in 2004-2005 from 44.4% in 1996-1997."
According to the research, "financial incentives were weighted against psychotherapy ... reimbursement for a 45- to 50-minute outpatient psychotherapy session was 40.9% lower than reimbursement for three 15 minute medication management visits." An author of the study, Dr. ...