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IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE PROVISION AND USE Private sector initiatives can increase use of mental health care treatment through decreased cost-sharing, improved access to specialty providers, and destigmatization of mental disorders.
In fact, school counselors serving in rural areas are often the only mental health provider in their community, and they may lack access to other professionals to meet supervision needs (Bardhoshi & Duncan, 2009).
The rapid responsiveness of the private psychiatric hospital market, as exemplified by these two firms, presents significant potential for shaping future mental health policy.
Private practitioners appear to have an important role in mental health services delivery, and patients have relatively good experiences with services.
* Establishing Widespread Legitimacy Given that other helping professions also provide mental health counseling, it is challenging for professional counselors to achieve recognition specifically as counselors (Hanna & Bemak, 1997).
Moreover, even if working in independent practice, mental health counselors are likely to treat less affluent clients than psychologists or psychiatrists.
Private practitioners can expand their services through the development, implementation, delivery, management, and evaluation of mental health services that respond to market dynamics.
Since mental health counselors in private practice often work in relative isolation, it is especially important that they attend to ethical issues.
Many counselor education programs do not reflect the similarities in duties between a mental health/community counselor and a community college coun-
School counselors serving in these areas are often the only rural mental health provider in their community, and they may lack access to other professionals to meet supervision needs.