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Wise Elder
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Location: 8CS / NYS / USA
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for me any time I did this it was a good thing because it provided whats called continuity of care where everyone knew/ knows what is going on, what treatment options worked and what ones didnt. under what diagnostic criteria I was diagnosed and if there was new diagnostics in place, a new evaluation was done... in other words for me there was many positives and very little negatives when it came to my old treatment providers meeting with my new ones. is it now part of your records again.. yes ... treatment providers in the USA have to document each session, not word for word just important information that they feel may need working on and treatment plans developed for. example any time I talked about my dissociation problems during any of my therapy sessions my treatment providers took note of it. so yes if you at any time discussed with your present treatment provider that you feel you have dissociation problems or you have presented with any symptoms of any mental disorders its already part of your present files with your present treatment provider. talking with your past therapist may "confirm " what your new therapist knows or that you have disclosed to them. and it can give them a better idea of what your past diagnosis's are. if you dont agree with having what ever problems you and your past therapist discussed or you were diagnosed with in the past you can ask for a new psychiatric evaluation. this will give you want your present diagnosis's are. the testing is very long and for some people can take more than one meeting with a psychiatrist and then it can take months to a year to get the final results and reports. depending upon what information you have disclosed in your therapy sessions, scheduling with a psychiatrist to do the many tests, time that it takes to complete a full battery of tests, time it takes for the psychiatrist to send the tests out to be scored, time that it takes for the test scoring company to go through your tests and score them, time it takes to return the tests to the psychiatrist with the results, time for the psychiatrist to review the tests and scores and write up their formal diagnosis reports, then scheduling for you and your therapist to meet with the psychiatrist to go over the test scores and results of what your diagnosis's are. the whole process takes a very long time to get through. but with me each time I do it, its well worth it. |
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