Posted by alexandra_k on August 6, 2013, at 3:38:58
In reply to Re: do you think of therapy as having a goal?, posted by alexandra_k on August 4, 2013, at 0:36:08
I think of CBT quite often as 'a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing'. Clinical Psychologists (in this country at least) can be like that about it. Thinking that it is the wonderful magical cure for everything (they consider legitimate) it is the most scientifically effective treatment (there is lies, damned lies, then there is statistics) it is a knowledge base that they have (based on very outdated theory of emotions and the relationship between reason and emotions) and they alone have this knowledge base in virtue of being selected to study a fairly competitive program: Clinical Psychology. This form of therapy distinguishes them from the counsellors (they are reimbursed at a higher rate, I believe) and they get to feel superior to the p-docs who (they believe) are the ones suffering from outdated psychological theory.
Not always, of course. But the above is my experience with Clinical Psychology (and CBT). But... My experience was with the publicly funded versions and I'm fairly sure they were expected to write a page full of notes after each session clearly stating the goal and how we had made progress towards it in order to justify seeing me. Wow. Poor them. That is what it looked like when I got hold of my notes... And poor me. Who can't actually talk to them very much at all for fear of what they might say and how that might be 'understood' by random wandering shift workers... I think our note system has moved to online. Now it is easily accessed. I think the good old days were better where whole files might be 'lost' or 'hard to locate' or just never really ended up getting sent on... They are expressing frustration at how hard it is to get my notes from Aussie, anyway. Yay Australia rah rah! A little bit of privacy... Is a wonderful thing.
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