Capstone: Day 7

       For today's blog, days 7 and 8 were done in one day. For the first part of the session we talked about the politics in the Psychology profession. We connected this to workers' compensation. To me the politics are smart concerning the bottom line, but at the same time, it can be morally wrong. Because of workers' compensation, treatment is paid for if a worker is injured during a job. Some people are denied the mental health they need because workers' compensation doesn't want to pay for it. There are some people who are severely hurt on duty and they can no longer work because the injury has deemed it to be physically impossible. This is turn connects to how the worker feels. Some get severely depressed, and workers' compensation pays for the psychological services. When the psychologist feels like the patient needs more help than what they can offer, they request workers' compensation to pay for psychiatric help to prevent the patient from committing suicide. Unfortunately, there are many times where workers' compensation choose to deny those services because they don't want to spend the money. This seems unfair to the people that really need help.