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Originally Posted by unaluna
You cant make the therapist do something that they feel is not in your best interest. Like you cant boss them around like this. Here the patient is calling it "informed consent", but that definition is usually left up to treating physician.
Plus the role of a therapist is not to be the judge of arguments or arbiter of truth between family members.
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I’m not the patient. Informed consent is a legal term. The fact that they’re a compulsive liar is not in question. How do you treat a liar when you have no way to know when they lie?
“I don’t wanna” is not a justification. She agreed to treat this patient and is deliberately handicapping it.
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informed consent
permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
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