Mental Health Care Recovery Summary

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Paragraph One: Introduction The offer of appropriate mental healthcare is crucial in a client’s recovery. Coherent and varied care poses the best treatment option for people with a mental disorder. In recent years the costs of mental health care (GGZ) has seen a higher increase compared to other health care sectors. This increase is due to people with mild psychological problems (such as burnout, sleeping problems, and problems related to domestic violence) being subject to specialized psychiatric care; which often is unnecessary. This results in an increase in demand for specialized psychiatric care, which may endanger the quality (adequate care not being available close to the clients residence), accessibility (increased waiting lists) and …show more content…

In this agreement, three main goals were stated: care should be brought closer to the client, this care should be improved and made more efficient, and finally mental health care should be kept affordable. 2014 saw the introduction of the general basis GGZ approach in the method applied by the GGZ in order to comply with these objectives. The ministry expects this new approach will result in clients receiving the care they need at the appropriate institution, by redirecting clients from the specialist mental health care to the generalist mental health care when their recovery permits so. This redirection will prevent clients from staying dependant on specialist mental health care, contributing to an affordable means of health care at the appropriate level (KPMG, …show more content…

Additional positive effects were found in the form of higher productivity, and a reduction in government benefits. As of current financial legislation treatment could only start after a diagnosis has been established. Necessary interventions in the early stadia of psychiatric illnesses were therefore not possible. Unfortunately, psychiatric illnesses are occurring at a frequent rate; a third to half of all adults have encountered these types of illnesses throughout their lifetime. A third of these people undergo treatment in a professional setting, in the form of professional mental health care. To increase investments in the new system, and thus to reduce costs in later stadia, extra attention aimed at the prevention of psychiatric illnesses is needed. This will stimulate faster signalling and diagnosis (GGZ Nederland,

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