"Nearly half of Veterans live with at least one disability, such as chronic pain, mental health conditions and operational stress injuries. Wait times for claims is the top complaint. Many Veterans continue to face hardship, including delayed treatment, financial strain and a declining quality of life. It also needs improved transition services to support successful release. Good intentions must be matched by concrete outcomes. Supporting veterans must not be an afterthought to defence policy. " p 32.
Veteran Affairs does provide mental health psychotherapy to Veterans. However, as a therapist I refuse to disclose confidential information especially to a physiotherapist whom is a manager. When I told the manager she was unqualified to have any information of a client, she hung up on me and had an insurance company providing me with a form to sign that I would share information. Of course I did no such thing. Therefore Veterans wanting to see me have to pay my fee which is disgraceful. Even with EAP, the one I was with for the beginning of my practice which I cannot identify (non-disclosure) had professional psychologists and social workers who served as medians. Veteran Affairs need to have qualified Mental Health Professionals deal with both the Veterans and Therapists. Veterans will not share all information if they know that their information will be compromised. This is a problem for healing. There needs to be trust in the therapist and what is disclosed. Therapists have a duty to report if they believe the client will kill himself, cause harm to others and child abuse. I would say a lot more work is required by Veteran Affairs and first they need to hire people who are qualified to do the job. If someone puts in a claim for a disability, then send them to the appropriate physicians who have time to comply with their unrealistic demands. Physicians barely have time to see their own patients than to meet the endless requests of paperwork. I would suggest that right now there is too much incompetence and waste of time.
What do you think?
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