Who cares whether the behavior is endorsed or not? It's a common practice and I broke down exactly how it happens legally.
It's an unfortunate fact many people are prescribed antidepressants just so their therapists can increase their take home pay. You act like there's a difference between a "consultation fee" and a "kickback", when the end result is a patient getting meds and the therapist making extra money.
Also, SSRIs cause people to either commit suicide or react violently in many cases. I've yet to see a school shooter who hasn't had a history of being prescribed SSRIs at some point.
As I said, what is legal is not necessarily protectable.
The APA can revoke your therapy license for unethical but legal behavior. You can be legally protected and still lose your ability to practice.
The APA is not a law-based organization. What is legal or illegal doesn’t have a direct correlation to what the APA is permitted to address and act upon.
For instance, APA psychologists can’t be involved in torture interrogations. Torture may be legal if the government says so, but the APA will take your license to practice if you accept a job where you interrogate water boarded detainees.
Which is why I’m pointing out that the APA writing an article like this should be more comforting than alarming. Because they’re telling you that they see the problem you are worried about and are not okay with it, and are willing to take action on their own even if local laws don’t specifically prohibit this behavior. It’s not being endorsed or protected by the people who matter here.
Who cares whether the behavior is endorsed or not? It's a common practice and I broke down exactly how it happens legally.
It's an unfortunate fact many people are prescribed antidepressants just so their therapists can increase their take home pay. You act like there's a difference between a "consultation fee" and a "kickback", when the end result is a patient getting meds and the therapist making extra money.
Also, SSRIs cause people to either commit suicide or react violently in many cases. I've yet to see a school shooter who hasn't had a history of being prescribed SSRIs at some point.
As I said, what is legal is not necessarily protectable.
The APA can revoke your therapy license for unethical but legal behavior. You can be legally protected and still lose your ability to practice.
The APA is not a law-based organization. What is legal or illegal doesn’t have a direct correlation to what the APA is permitted to address and act upon.
For instance, APA psychologists can’t be involved in torture interrogations. Torture may be legal if the government says so, but the APA will take your license to practice if you accept a job where you interrogate water boarded detainees.
Which is why I’m pointing out that the APA writing an article like this should be more comforting than alarming. Because they’re telling you that they see the problem you are worried about and are not okay with it, and are willing to take action on their own even if local laws don’t specifically prohibit this behavior. It’s not being endorsed or protected by the people who matter here.
There are thousands of therapists who receive commissions for patient referrals. That's the point.
Anything else you say after that is simply semantics.
SSRIs are bad news and are over-prescribed. There's a clear profit motive for that.