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Old Aug 14, 2013, 05:13 PM
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My T has a message on his voicemail saying to call the crisis hotline if having a crisis, and the phone number is provided. He tends not to answer the phone outside of business hours so that is one way he keeps boundaries. If the person is having a crisis in off hours, the crisis line is available. If a T does talk to a client in crisis on the phone and is worried they may harm themselves or others, the T can ask them to go to a hospital ER or can call the county mental health professionals team and they send someone out to the person's residence to assess whether they need to be hospitalized. I don't think my T has a lot of clients at any one time who are a danger to themselves or others. My T sometimes will come in on a weekend for a special session for a client who needs an appointment sooner than can be scheduled on a working day. So I think he does get his personal life interrupted sometimes--it's part of the job--but I hope it does not happen too often.
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