Mental health disorders are on the rise, but are training and treatment methods keeping pace?
While the number of those with mental health disorders in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the past 20 years, some wonder if training for the experts treating those disorders is keeping pace with the growing problem.
There are questions about whether that treatment — administered by clinical psychologists and therapists — is done using out-of-date methods that lack scientific rigor. (more…)
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