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Originally Posted by Jaybird57
Someone posted earlier that those who were posting about the referral as being a positive thing as being comparable to women dissing other women for wanting equal pay to males (I think it might have been you, SD, but I'm too lazy to go back to check). In any case, I strongly disagree. I'm sorry, but I do wholeheartedly believe that there are therapists out there who are so poorly equipped to deal with their clients issues that it is vastly less harmful to refer the client than to allow the poorly trained and stupid therapist to continue with his deplorable attempts to meet the needs of his challenging client. . . and I say challenging in the sense that the therapist is too poorly trained to know how to do ANYTHING positive or therapeutic for said client. It has nothing to do with the client and her needs, SHE'S A CLIENT for pity sakes, and she came to therapy to meet with someone who could help her with her needs/mental health issues. The fault does not lie with her! The fault lies with the ill-equipped, poorly trained therapist or with the therapist who does not specialize in the area of concern and therefore does not have the skill set to perform the necessary therapy.
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I am a lawyer and I do represent clients in the mental health system who have been and those who are being abused by the system, psychiatrists, and therapists.
My objection was to the defense of this example as being an upstanding therapist and statements like the poor therapist who has to put up with a client like this woman being like women who used to be against the Equal Rights Act - I think stands.
I do not say a therapist may not get rid of a client. My problem is how they couch it and approach it and congratulate themselves on their handling of the problem woman.
Please go re-read my comment. You have mischaracterized my position.