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This probably won’t work for your class, but I would like to see therapists REQUIRED to send out questionnaires to clients after they leave therapy to get their honest opinion about what helped, what didn’t, where the client thinks the therapist may have failed them, etc., etc. They have classes required for their degrees, for heaven’s sake, about how to do this kind of “psychological research” so why aren’t they applying it to their own professional services?
From a political perspective, the “mentally ill” are a generally looked-down-on group and our opinion about our care is clearly not worth being considered by the “expert” professionals.
It’s insane!!! It apparently never entered any professional’s mind that we, as human beings (even if “mentally ill”), might have something useful to offer in terms of improving therapy and its effectiveness.
Who knows? A well-designed, required questionnaire might help incompetent and defensive therapists learn how to take feedback and criticism constructively. Better for everybody than having to wait until they have a complaint lodged against them.
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