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If you have access to Medicare
Information for refugee and migrant men about mental health.
If your general practitioner (GP) refers you to a mental health specialist, this can be subsidised under Medicare. Your GP will first ask some questions about your health history, symptoms and situation.
Your GP will assess your condition and advise on the type of help you need. This can include:
- making a mental health assessment
- creating a mental health treatment plan
- referring you to a psychiatrist or other mental health professional
- prescribing medication, if required.
Your GP can refer you to a psychologist for 10 individual sessions and 10 group sessions under your mental health care plan in a year. After the sixth session, you will return to your GP, for a review of your progress and a new referral for the remaining sessions.
- Organisation:
- The Social Policy Group
- Target audience:
- Men, New arrivals
- Service area:
- National
- Published:
- February 2024
- Last reviewed:
- February 2025
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