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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:17:21 EST
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- From: Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: Stats & Therapists
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30:33 -0500 from <jlbugg@UCCS.EDU>
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- All girls, eh? Well, that explains a lot right there; lack of mastery
- in heterosocial conflict. Obviously a desperate search for a brother
- to complete your psychic development.
- Don't take too much joy in inflicting insult; it'll only increase your
- feelings of guilt. You may suffer a reaction formation and subscribe
- to Playboy.
- Hmmm, more angry comments about APA. Sounds like APS was a good
- choice for a lot of your profs.
- Re supervisors: First, do you do clinical work? It's important in
- discussing the quality of therapists and supervisors. I said the good
- can outweigh the bad because the good supervisors that's my experience.
- The bad ones are often rather lazy or uncaring or narrow-minded. The good
- ones model good professional relationships, energetic concern and high
- standards. Even for those of you who don't have supervisors, the same
- can be said of teachers -- if you have an appreciation for teaching, you
- learn a lot from the good ones and feel a little cheated by the bad ones,
- but you aren't necessarily in danger of emulating the bad ones.
- >
- >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?
-
- Hey, first you slam me for sounding like a know-it-all, then you
- ask my opinion on the same subject. OK, I'll bite, but not much: I
- don't know. Like all professions, it's very hard and often only the
- blatantly bad get tossed out. But this isn't just psychology or medicine,
- a friend who's a lawyer said when he went to law school at UF they were
- deathly afraid of getting caught doing ANYTHING, holding a single joint
- could keep you from being admitted to the bar. BUT, once you were a
- lawyer, you'd have to practically commit murder to be disbarred.
- I don't want to ruin your day, but you're agreeing with me: A lot of
- the screening does and should come in training, which raises conflict questions
- about schools that profit from training clinicians.
- The test: No, there's not a lot of "Freud stuff" on the exam. I once
- took part in one of those seminars for writing questions for the exam
- and they have quotas on types of questions, such as stats, psycopathology,
- etc. I have friends who've complained that it had too much IO on it!
- Re Malpractice: The odds of being sued for malpractice as a psychologist
- are very low. Now -- here's something for the Feminists out there to gnaw
- on: A lot of the malpractice suits allege sexual conduct between therapist
- and patient and the vast majority of those cases involve male therapists.
- BUT the premiums are not broken down by gender but only by region. Calif.
- and the western region are the highest. (I don't want to ruin your
- Christmas, but I actually asked an insurance rep about that on behalf of
- women. She dodged the question entirely.) I would think it would be
- very hard to allege malpractice because of the therapist's behavior
- unless it was blatantly unethical.
- Don't feel too bad, Jen. I forgive you. It's the season.
- Tim
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