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Psychiatrists Doing 35% Less Psychotherapy

Posted on August 05, 2008

As we reported earlier today, psychiatrists are doing less psychotherapy than they were a decade ago: Over the 10-year period, psychotherapy was provided in 5,597 (34 percent) of 14,108 visits lasting longer than 30 minutes. The percentage of visits involving psychotherapy declined from 44.4 percent in 1996-1997 to 28.9 percent in 2004-2005. This decline coincided with changes in reimbursement, increases in managed care and growth in the prescription of medications, the researchers write. The number of psychiatrists who provided psychotherapy to all of their patients also declined over t...

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