The province has the worst wait times in Canada for mental health services, according to the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association. Thealso currently only lists 242 fully registered psychologists, which equates to one psychologist per 2,155 people.
"We started to see a trend towards folks moving out of the public system but also different people moving out of the public system. So, more mid-career psychologists who had really made their career there -- those were the folks that we were starting to see move out and make the switch over to private practice and that's quite unusual," she told CTV's Your Morning on Wednesday.
"The kind of stepped care that was used was actually a proprietary model called Stepped Care 2.0. And there were a couple of concerns around that. One is a tendency for it to encourage what we think of as something of a 'melting pot' idea of mental health," she said..
In addition, 74 per cent of these respondents said the structural changes and the blurring of psychologist roles with counsellors had a moderate to great deal of impact.
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