[joshuas-mommy]

I find that mental health workers have been pushing their religious beliefs onto me. Are psychologists allowed to let their religious beliefs influence what they diagnose patients with?

[itjustis]

Absolutely not. They should remain impartial, non-judgemental and respect your beliefs.
They should in no way be pushing their beliefs onto you.

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[kecanoe]

There are ts who advertise as being Christian counselors. I would think they might approach things from their religious perspective. And there are pastoral counselors, same thing there. But no one should "push" their beliefs on you. The Christian counselors I know will talk about God if you want, but have no problems keeping their beliefs to themselves.

I don't know that religious beliefs would interfere with formal diagnosis using the DSM-V. I guess someone could tell you that you are possessed or suffered something in a past life. I would not continue to see a t who said that sort of things.

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Originally Posted by joshuas-mommy

I find that mental health workers have been pushing their religious beliefs onto me. Are psychologists allowed to let their religious beliefs influence what they diagnose patients with?

This is a major reason I haven't been able to find a T because they all want to bring religion into it. I'm sorry, but I have no belief. So telling me I just need to accept whichever "God" they believe in and that believing and praying daily will magically fix all my problems is starting to piss me off. The last t told me that if I prayed daily, my schizoaffective disorder will be suddenly gone one day. Like really? In my head, you just told a delusional prone diagnosis person to believe in what I believe is a delusion. I couldn't believe her.

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[Shaly78]

Only meet two one was for SSDI! I had been diagnosed before each of them meet with me....They concurred. What I wanted to say is, now how are you going to question diagnoses without being someone like myself with a story on why I questioned NHS because I had already been diagnosed. Also with what we have DID/PTSD we already know about alters just waiting on the right person to hear and notice...The denying it wasn't no reason to after that, actually I never denied anything I continued therapy just wasn't understanding of the safety aspect at the time..

To Joshuas-mommy, I think you should wait it out ask for an explanation or do some of the research on your own to make sense of it.

[growlycat]

I personally believe it is unethical for a therapists to push their own religious or political view on patients. It is not standard practice for most therapists but some do it anyways