Chapter 32: Primary mental health care
1. Primary care services provide the ___________of care to people who have mental health problems and there is growing interest in service provision in this field.
2. Approximately _______ of 2,000 people visiting their GP may be negatively affected by their mental health condition.
3. The treatment model was designed to offer patients access to a range of talking therapies for anxiety and depression in line with ______ guidelines.
4. The most common form of mental health conditions treated in primary care are ______and ________.
Answer: Depression and anxiety
5. PWPs utilise facilitated self-help based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles and carry large caseloads but offer brief, time limited support (typically _____ sessions of about 30 minutes).
6. 25% of people attending hospital emergency departments with acute chest pain actually have ________ disorder.
7. Primary mental health care makes sense. It is close to the communities in which we live, linked in to wider social resources, and it reduces _______ and exclusion.