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Im devastated. Losing therapist!
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 327442" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I just came back here to ponder some more even if no one listens...lol.</p><p></p><p>I was rolling this whole thing over in my head and I remembered a small thing that my therapist said about how her agency had just had to cut some staff members. I asked her how if they had to cut staff...why then would the agency be willing to hire us (these new PSS positions) on? She said well we would be bringing money into the agency because we would be the lowest paid workers and we would be doing work that would free up some of the higher paid QP folks. </p><p></p><p>That got me to thinking as I read through some state regs. Evidently there has to be like 1 psychiatrist, then 1 or 2 masters level Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or LPC which are the QP's and then there can be the AP's which are the associate professionals which are things like case managers etc. Then there would be us lowly peer support specialists. Evidently, the AP's have mostly been eliminated because case management has almost been eliminated. There arent a whole lot of them left. </p><p></p><p>So what is hoped for is that they can get more folks that are seriously mentally ill but "in recovery for one year" (ha!) to take over the work of the AP's so that the QP's have more time to do the real work. In reality, us crazy people will be doing lots and lots of work that was being done by actual mental health professionals before! </p><p></p><p>Talk about the inmates taking over the asylum!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 327442, member: 1514"] I just came back here to ponder some more even if no one listens...lol. I was rolling this whole thing over in my head and I remembered a small thing that my therapist said about how her agency had just had to cut some staff members. I asked her how if they had to cut staff...why then would the agency be willing to hire us (these new PSS positions) on? She said well we would be bringing money into the agency because we would be the lowest paid workers and we would be doing work that would free up some of the higher paid QP folks. That got me to thinking as I read through some state regs. Evidently there has to be like 1 psychiatrist, then 1 or 2 masters level Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or LPC which are the QP's and then there can be the AP's which are the associate professionals which are things like case managers etc. Then there would be us lowly peer support specialists. Evidently, the AP's have mostly been eliminated because case management has almost been eliminated. There arent a whole lot of them left. So what is hoped for is that they can get more folks that are seriously mentally ill but "in recovery for one year" (ha!) to take over the work of the AP's so that the QP's have more time to do the real work. In reality, us crazy people will be doing lots and lots of work that was being done by actual mental health professionals before! Talk about the inmates taking over the asylum!!! [/QUOTE]
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