Dialing Up Mental Health Interventions

Psychiatric News notes through research completed that patients with anxiety and depression were significantly impacted by telephone –based interventions by a care manager that reduced their use of the emergency room visits and the patients also showed a decrease in symptoms of depression and anxiety 12 months post intervention.

Dialing up mental health continues to be an intervention that being used and researched. This research indicates that telephone interventions can be a successful treatment. Care managers can develop a relationship, show concern and emotional support, discuss ways the patient can manage their symptoms through evidenced based practice interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (assisting patients in understanding faulty and irrational thinking and assisting patients with changing thought patterns to be more rational and realistic) Disease Education and other Interventions.

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