NAMI Illinois Rejects Psychologists’ Attempts to Gain Prescription Privileges

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5. I can't speak beyond my personal experience

The APA certainly placed caveats within the DSM often stating something to the effect not better explained by a medical condition.
And Axis III was recognized as 'medical' conditions that contribute to symptoms of mental illness.

My personal experience was that I did have to undergo a medical exam prior to V.A. mental health outpatient care.

I don't know about different providers/insurers but it seems that evaluation sessions do also get billed.

I was not part of it, but have been told that during the late 90s and early 2000's there was a pattern of 'fast therapy' which basically was do what you can in 10 visits and then clients were on their own. I can understand that trying to shoe-horn all treatment into such constraints could result in short-cuts