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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
I am shocked at the poll results so far, and I don't think it's due to everyone being fortunate enough to have a relationship with her therapist like lolagrace does.
I assumed mine were doing something they had been trained to do.
It seems like such a simple question to ask. And such an important area to ask it in.
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It looks like well over half of those who have commented say they either have those conversations naturally so the therapist hasn't needed to ask directly or they feel completely comfortable discussing such things with their therapist. Another respondent said it is routinely taught as something that therapists should be doing. So apparently, many therapists and clients are having these conversations.
Unfortunately the poll didn't have a choice of "No, my therapist doesn't bring this up because I do" or "No, my therapist doesn't bring this up because we have these conversations as a natural course of our sessions," so the flat "no" answer is a bit unclear and unqualified. I answered "other" because he doesn't ask, but that is because he hasn't needed to. Other people may have answered "no" for the same reason, but it makes it look like the vast majority of therapists/clients never have these discussions when the comments seem to reflect that they do BEFORE the therapist has to directly ask. I suspect if those kinds of answer choices were available on the poll, the absolute "no" choice percentage would go down and those other qualified "no" answers would balance out with the "yes" answers. It's probably a bit more balanced than what the poll is showing right now.