Posted by violette on April 14, 2011, at 20:01:59
In reply to Re: Paying for services not yet rendered?, posted by Solstice on April 12, 2011, at 22:04:53
"Has anyone else ever heard of such a thing?"
I've heard of similar things, and experienced them. It's called lousy mental health care. The place your son goes to sounds like a mill. Sorry to say, but if he were my son, I'd take him outta there. It may not be the individual therapist's fault and the individual therapist might even disagree with management, but that individual therapist is also likely supervised by those managing the practice. Or at least they have to go along with the priorities and policies of management. And one might even say that the individual therapists might be agreeing with those policies by merely working there.
The worst mental health practioners I've seen in the past had the worse administrative policies. But the best I've seen had reasonable policies. Making mistakes were not relevant-it's the upfront policies. It really reflects on their ethics, their (lack of) value in the relationship, and their priorities.
If I sound harsh, it's probably because I learned the hard way.
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