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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30:33 EST
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- From: jlbugg@UCCS.EDU
- Subject: RE: Stats & Therapists
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- Love ya like I love Rush Lembaugh. All girls in my family. Can't
- remember what I felt guilty about but for some reason it makes me
- smile that you're smoldering.
-
- OK, so APS is obviously not a good choice for overseeing licensure -
- and by the way, a majority of my professors boycotted the APA and
- joined the APS precisely because APA said to pick one, but not both.
- And, they are researchers.
-
- I'm not sure why you think the good supervisors can outdo the bad ones.
- But this is precisely my point... and some time, someone has to decide
- what is good from what is bad. We can hardly harness professionals
- with expectations that can't be verbalized. So here is my question,
- which I pose not from my deep abiding love for you but because it was
- almost interesting: (oh, and now I remember what I felt guilty about...
- the flame...)
-
- How do we separate the good from the bad? How do we define it - and then
- how do we effectively get rid of the bad? As it stands now, we have
- the APS - which doesn't really do much outside of licensure. I tried
- reporting someone once - I think I spoke to a receptionist. We also
- have supervisors but that is guaranteed to maintain the status quo -
- birds of a feather. There's testing - and I have never seen the tests -
- but I've heard rumors that there's a lot of Freud stuff in there. Who
- writes the tests? There is malpractice - but with insurance premiums
- structured like they are: as long as you have money, you can play.
-
- My big comment here is that schooling - while not the big police we
- may desire - could effectively weed out good from bad. Arm them with
- knowledge kind of thing. That's all.
-
- Over and out, Jen.
-