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Originally Posted by Lauliza
Grad interns in masters programs, on the other hand, are often no more than free labor to a lot of the sites who use them. So it's the intern who needs to be selective rather than the site and therefore doesn't always tell you much about the quality of the student.
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Yep. That's the sad reality of many counseling sites.
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Originally Posted by Lauliza
A " good" therapist is so open to interpretation that it's hard to find a consencus on what exactly that is.
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True. Therefore, no consensus is necessary. When I speak of "good" therapist I certainly express my own ideas of what that entails and don't insist that my vision should be universal. In my view, a "good" therapist for one particular person could be a disaster for another. What is necessary, however, for any therapist is to be fully honest and elaborative in their informed consent about how they practice so the prospective client can see clearly if that's what they need and wouldn't get surprised later in the process.
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Originally Posted by Lauliza
It may sou d strange, but in my experience, the higher the degree the T has had, the weirder and less effective they were.
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It've had a different experience. All Ts I've known as my personal Ts and as colleagues, instructors and supervisors differed in their effectiveness depending on their personalities, common wisdom and emotional intelligence, not their degrees and not even the number of years they'd worked in the field, which is what we usually call "experience".