Achieving equal status under Medicare remains a top legislative priority for the counseling profession. New research published in the April Journal of Counseling & Development highlights the inequity of the Medicare mental health coverage gap by relating the frustrations, discouragement and hopelessness that beneficiaries experience when seeking mental health care from a program that excludes licensed professional counselors. In semistructured interviews, 18 Medicare beneficiaries—nine of whom qualified due to age and nine due to disability—shared their experiences. Reviewing the transcripts, researchers identified three main themes: exasperating experiences navigating the Medicare bureaucracy, compound barriers to obtaining care and Medicare as a flawed system.
FEATURED ARTICLE: Volume 100 ■ Number 2 ■ April 2022
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The Impact of Excluded Providers on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Mental Health Care
Matthew C. Fullen, Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab, Jonathan D. Wiley, Nancy Brossoie, and Gerard Lawson
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Research Articles
Effectiveness of EMDR for Decreasing Symptoms of Over-Arousal: A Meta-Analysis
Richard S. Balkin, A. Stephen Lenz, G. Michael Russo, Brent W. Powell, and Halie M. Gregory
The Impact of Excluded Providers on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Mental Health Care
Matthew C. Fullen, Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab, Jonathan D. Wiley, Nancy Brossoie, and Gerard Lawson
Child-Centered Play Therapy and Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Dee C. Ray, Elizabeth Burgin, Daniel Gutierrez, Peggy Ceballos, and Natalya Lindo
A Phenomenological Study of Perseverance and Resilience Through the Migration Journey
Dawnette L. Cigrand. Mary Fawcett, Rieko Miyakuni, Patricia Arredondo, and Gail Onderak
The Context of Disclosing Suicidality: An Exploration With Attempt Survivors
Lindsay Sheehan, Nathalie Oexle, Silvia A. Armas, Hoi Ting Wan, Michael Bushman, LaToya Glover, Stanley Lewy, and Aamir Laique
Assessment and Diagnosis
Moderation of Attachment on Association Between Relationship Status and Depression
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam and A. Stephen Lenz
Self-Reassurance Moderated by Identity Dysfunction: Associations With Distress and Impairment
David Kealy, Shelly Ben-David, Alicia Spidel, Saffron Wadsley-Rose, and Dan Kim
Theory & Practice
Holistic Irreducibility: Humanistic Practice as the Gateway to Phenomenal Mind
Brett D. Wilkinson
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