well with the counseling clinic at my college I was given a survey evaluation form, but this was towards the end of my sessions, not after, so I did not yet no the heart break of being "abandoned" by my therapist forever. I basically gave her a good review. It would have been helpful for it to be afterwards, but at the same time, it's good that it's still during the sessions, so the therapist can have a chance to look at it and take your words into consideration, even if anonymous. I must say though, it was a bit hard to do the survey, as I didn't know really how to evaluate her. Did she help me solve my problems? Heck no. Did she make me feel comforted and at ease? Totally. So I gave her a good review. Also, I wouldn't want to give her a bad review, just out of how much I know it would hurt her career. Yes, I realize that isn't a good reason, but I still did care about her. But back to my choosing a topic... Yeah I still don't know. Still thinking. I have till tomorrow to decide, and if I can't come up with anything when the professor calls on me, I will right then and there in front of the class, be advised to drop the class.
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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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