Went to a therapist as a teenager. They locked me away from my family threatened to have me removed from them permanently and I got to watch a child rip his eye out because they refused to give him his right drugs and changed them with no doctor approval.
I will literally never forget the sight
All because my therapist thought a depressed teenager was too much effort to deal with.
There are bad therapists. Lots of them. Just like any profession, unfortunately. There’s no way to just make them all be good, despite MSW training programs being fairly good overall, a lot of therapists can take a religious route in without taking past-grad level courses. These are overwhelmingly the “Let’s just talk about your mother for the next 15 years while I bill you” types. Properly trained therapists today are method-driven, using evidence-based modalities to solve specific problems. They can actually fix you. Badly trained therapists can wreak havoc.
We think of children and adolescents as the ones being unable to advocate for ourselves, but a huge proportion of adults can’t advocate for themselves in the mental health arena, meaning they aren’t going to get reliably good outcomes.
Went to a therapist as a teenager. They locked me away from my family threatened to have me removed from them permanently and I got to watch a child rip his eye out because they refused to give him his right drugs and changed them with no doctor approval.
I will literally never forget the sight
All because my therapist thought a depressed teenager was too much effort to deal with.
I’ll have what he’s having
There are bad therapists. Lots of them. Just like any profession, unfortunately. There’s no way to just make them all be good, despite MSW training programs being fairly good overall, a lot of therapists can take a religious route in without taking past-grad level courses. These are overwhelmingly the “Let’s just talk about your mother for the next 15 years while I bill you” types. Properly trained therapists today are method-driven, using evidence-based modalities to solve specific problems. They can actually fix you. Badly trained therapists can wreak havoc.
We think of children and adolescents as the ones being unable to advocate for ourselves, but a huge proportion of adults can’t advocate for themselves in the mental health arena, meaning they aren’t going to get reliably good outcomes.
AI won’t improve on this problem.