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DSM 5 proposes change to major depressive order
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 373955" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I agree whole-heartedly. Here in the US, or at least this state, I can look online for any complaints (formal) or sanctions taken against a licensed professional. In any profession I look up (attnys, engineers, etc), I find a fraction have misrepresented themselves, took money without providing the service they were paid for, practiced outside the area of competency, etc. and that can probably be expected- there are a few bad fish in any group. If I look up a NH prof, the ONLY thing I have ever seen listed is "had inappropriate relationship with patient", What that tells me is that there is no accountability for them saying they can treat a diagnosis when they really have no clue how to or anything else. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy for their board of authority to monitor and gage these things, but their board should be at least making an effort to weed out the incompetent ones. I realize a MH prof has no business going to bed with a client but frankly, as long as they don't touch a kid I am a lot more concerned about whether or not they can diagnosis and whether or not they can give appropriate therapy/treatment for a problem. I will say that my frustration is not with psychiatrists, who do have the MD. But here, our psychs and tdocs are "monitored" by a different board than MDs. Our psychiatrists are more likely to use their brain though and putn more weight on their training, experience, and common sense. Our other MH profs are liked trained monkeys in many cases- and put too much bias into it. For instance, they read the list of criteria for a diagnosis and if a kid fits two things and the person has heard from anyone that this is what the kid has, they automatically give that diagnosis- never mind that the list also includes things like "ongoing for 6 months or more"- they apparently overlook that part. And they don't look at the whole picture to find which diagnosis fits best. </p><p></p><p>I don't want to hi-jack T's thread, I just have a big problem with this typical approach in therapy these days- obviously it isn't working very well and I'm tired of incompetent tdocs saying the problem is the client or the client's parents not trying hard enough- or it must be the medication. Yeah right- well after trying what seems like 50, I don't think they have the solution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 373955, member: 3699"] I agree whole-heartedly. Here in the US, or at least this state, I can look online for any complaints (formal) or sanctions taken against a licensed professional. In any profession I look up (attnys, engineers, etc), I find a fraction have misrepresented themselves, took money without providing the service they were paid for, practiced outside the area of competency, etc. and that can probably be expected- there are a few bad fish in any group. If I look up a NH prof, the ONLY thing I have ever seen listed is "had inappropriate relationship with patient", What that tells me is that there is no accountability for them saying they can treat a diagnosis when they really have no clue how to or anything else. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy for their board of authority to monitor and gage these things, but their board should be at least making an effort to weed out the incompetent ones. I realize a MH prof has no business going to bed with a client but frankly, as long as they don't touch a kid I am a lot more concerned about whether or not they can diagnosis and whether or not they can give appropriate therapy/treatment for a problem. I will say that my frustration is not with psychiatrists, who do have the MD. But here, our psychs and tdocs are "monitored" by a different board than MDs. Our psychiatrists are more likely to use their brain though and putn more weight on their training, experience, and common sense. Our other MH profs are liked trained monkeys in many cases- and put too much bias into it. For instance, they read the list of criteria for a diagnosis and if a kid fits two things and the person has heard from anyone that this is what the kid has, they automatically give that diagnosis- never mind that the list also includes things like "ongoing for 6 months or more"- they apparently overlook that part. And they don't look at the whole picture to find which diagnosis fits best. I don't want to hi-jack T's thread, I just have a big problem with this typical approach in therapy these days- obviously it isn't working very well and I'm tired of incompetent tdocs saying the problem is the client or the client's parents not trying hard enough- or it must be the medication. Yeah right- well after trying what seems like 50, I don't think they have the solution. [/QUOTE]
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