Posted by Dr. Rod on November 23, 2003, at 12:05:22
In reply to Re: Not a Life Sentence » Dr. Rod, posted by tabitha on November 23, 2003, at 1:40:11
Thank you "Tabitha" for listening and responding... David Peck, LCSW/MFCC, was retired from his personal practice and working part time or volunteering at the center for 8 to 15 hours per week... He was 78 when he passed away in May... His techniques he coined as "outcome thinking", took the center like a firestorm, tripling the "success rates" in a couple of years...
No one could shed any light for him as to why his techniques were so significant, so several of his friends and cohorts (62 in all) started meeting 5 to 10 of us at a time weekly, studying the territory, feeding back to him our separate successes and reporting on what we had read and studied in the week...
We amassed an enormous amount of new stuff that seemed connected, and seemed to provide better results, but astoundingly, continuing to increase the success rates... In 1999, he offered the center a careful research study to prove what we had discovered and employed... In 2001, he had cancer surgery which put a big glitch in the graphs... Remarkably, we had statistics that indicated success 7 out of 8 times with no repeaters, and no "cooking the books" (I have direct and immediate knowledge, since I was responsible for the database and the reporting)...
After chemo, David started gleaning his 40 odd trade journal submissions (some published, some not), assembling the beginnings of a book as the definitive study... When David neared the end, he offered his work to a fully credentialled collegue to finish...
This didn't leave me lost or angry... I had already witnessed and discovered so much that I choose to "float my own boat"... I have an overwhelming number of optional paths to venture down... The difference for me is I won't "vibrate with indecision"; and I know why I won't...
I'm out of time so I promise to answer the second half in a little bit...
Again, thank you "Tabitha"...
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