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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:02:20 EST
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- From: Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: Stats & Therapists
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:52:16 -0500 from <jlbugg@UCCS.EDU>
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- I don't know, Jennifer. It must be love. (Do you have a brother
- who always irritated you?)
- First, I'm sure APA is challengeable in many ways, but I can't see APS
- doing the job instead -- APS started because a lot of psychologists thought
- APA was overrun with professional psychologists as it was.
- It may not be such a bad system that a national academic/professional
- organization like APA oversees training but state boards of professional
- regulation regulate licensure. It spreads out the oversight.
- You're right that bad supervisors could pass on more problems (but
- then who are YOU to say who's a bad supervisor?) but they're all
- we've got and the good ones usually fix a lot of problems that the bad
- ones cause, in my experience.
- As for good and bad therapists, why can't I have my opinion? If I were in
- school to be a Harley mechanic I'd probably have a better idea of who's
- a good mechanic than other people. (And you're getting on the wrong person
- about that -- I'm the one who's biased in favor of accreditation of
- training programs.) If you think this opinion about how therapists vary
- in quality is mine alone, you're quite wrong.
-
- Tim. Chaotic and still smoldering. (I'm glad you feel guilty; I'll try to
- cash in on that some time.)
-