Source: http://brainblogger.com/2018/08/13/friendship-bench-a-model-for-accessible-mental-health-care/
In 2017, Mental Health America reported that one in five adults with mental illness say that they are not receiving the mental health care that they need. (Mental Health America, 2017) The reasons for this are the following:
- (1) they do not have insurance for it
- (2) they do not have enough money to pay for the service
- (3) mental health care providers are lacking
There is one mental health care provider for every 529 individuals in the US. This gap widens significantly for specialized mental health care. Only 20% of children with mental health problems receive some form of mental health services. The reason is that there are only about 8000 child and adolescent psychiatrists practicing in the US. In San Francisco alone, the Center for Disease Controls and Prevention (CDC) r…