They are putting money in for talking therapies. Translated this means CBT delivered by phone or computer, six sessions per person.ohsocynical wrote:We'd arrived at the hospital just as George was talking about funding for mental health...I've not seen much comment on it on Twitter. Anyone know what the figures he was throwing around actually mean?
What it won't do is provide the inpatient beds needed for people in reafl meltdown who usually wind up in the prison system, or with family who are unsure of how to care for them, and unable to get medical treatment for them because unless they volunteer for treatment as adults and get themselves to a surgery no one will look at them. Unless they get violent, then they may be sectioned. Or wind up on a charge.
It also is no substitute for proper expert long term psychological counselling, or a proper diagnosis and medical treatment where needed.