Posted by Dinah on November 13, 2003, at 17:34:58
In reply to Re: It's very common, posted by Smilez on November 13, 2003, at 16:14:31
Sigh. It seems like confusion reigns supreme among less well trained therapists.
Could you have someone send him this video, or a printout of the information of this video, if you're not supposed to contact him?
Or if you think that would be intrusive when he doesn't want to have contact, I suggest this.
Why don't we all buy a copy of this video and donate it to our local training schools, to keep future clients from having to go through rejection by untrained therapists. And since I know not everyone can afford the video, we could also print out the order page and mail it to all our local training schools.
It's true that a therapist can't date a client. It's also true that a therapist might have to refer a client because of *their own* feelings about a client, or *their own* inability and lack of training to deal with transference.
But it is NEVER the fault of a client if a therapist does this. A client's *feelings* NEVER are cause for a therapist to terminate them. A client's actions might be, but not their feelings. A well trained therapist will use any feelings a client has for them to explore the client's issues and ways of dealing with the world.
Ok, here's the link. Therapy clients of the world unite!!!! If they can't do it for themselves, let's do it for them!!!
(And thank you Penny for the link. I've already ordered a video, and if it's as good as it looks I'll donate it to one of my local colleges with a therapy degree program and order more as I can afford it.)
http://www.apa.org/videos/4310570.html?CFID=2493388&CFTOKEN=89863392
poster:Dinah
thread:279239
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20031113/msgs/279485.html