e27 Article: Moving mental health out of Freud’s era and beyond the couch with big data
Gheorg founder and psychologist of almost 30 years, Dr Louise Metcalf wrote an article in Aug 2021 where she shared some important statistics about mental health services.
Read the article to find out more from Louise about:
how many people experience mental health challenges
the effectiveness of mental health plans in Australia
psychologist wait times
big data and smart phones
Read the article from Dr Louise Metcalf.
Excerpt from article:
“There is a lot of hope in how big data can create mental health services that help everyone so much more than what it is now.
Let’s face it. There are some big problems with the way we do mental health right now, and no, telehealth hasn’t solved everything. I’m going to list them off because there are that many.
I’m going to be using Australia as my data case study here, firstly because it’s where I live and work so I can comment personally and secondly because Australia is really a best-case, case-study.
We have 95 psychologists for every 100k people, everywhere else around the world that statistic gets worse, in the US for example, where most (non-US) people think it’s almost 1:1, the rates actually drop to 33 psychologists per 100,000.”