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As more results like these continue to emerge, it willbecome hard for professionals in long term care to ignore. However, there is enough data now to warrant moving this enlightenedapproach forward.We need to demand that the better treatmentsbe made available to our residents in long term care. As longterm care professionals continue to hear about the promisingresults generated by psychotherapy,
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quick results. Unfortunately, there is no pharmaceuticalindustry equivalent that promotes psychological and behavioralapproaches. And the healthcare industry has yet to embracedisease management models in the treatment of psychiatricdisorders that include evidence-based psychosocialtreatments.
As a result, residents are mainly prescribed onlydrugs or several drugs in combination to treat psychiatricdisturbances. Such interventions are helpful, but they could bemore effective and less risky if psychotherapy were part of thecentral treatment mix. Psychiatric treatment in long term careand elsewhere is comparable to treating diabetes withoutaddressing diet and exercise or treating an injured jointwithout prescribing physical therapy.
It's time that we as health care and long termcare professionals figure out ways to offer strength-embeddedpsychotherapy to residents who could benefit from this type oftargeted behavioral approach.