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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 472741" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>There's DF, Step, me, and a host of others here that have suffered from this and watched our difficult children continue to worsen as a result of idiocracy. That's not to excuse our difficult children or to convey that our difficult children would be 'cured' if these things changed, but a lot of money is being spent on bogus koi while agencies claim they have no money and the things these agencies are doing are things they have been doing for years that have no proven success rate. They aren't working and any time these people (agencies/governments) get more money, they throw it all at doing the same koi. We already know that stuff doesn't work. And they can't be held accountable.</p><p></p><p>DJ- re. MH boards- I was thinking it should be more like the other profs' boards. For instance, a person can look online and see any complaints and board action against a licensee, and they can with a MH prof, too. In some cases, of course, the complaint turned out to be invalid and the prof retains the license with no reprimand or consequence. Usually, for most boards, these complaints aren't looked at too hard unless there are several complaints against one person or someone has been hurt, physically or financially, or mentally. Examples- say an electrical engineer has spent 15 years working at a power plant on energy systems then claims he can do all the electrical design for a huge building. The electrical system he designs fails and a complaint is waged. The board looks into it and finds the engineer never had any experience doing a complex electrical design for a building, even though his education alone might have allowed him to- he misrepresented himself and practiced outside his area of competency- he's in trouble. A MH prof could do something similar (and they do many times) and people don't know they can complain and their board wouldn't do squat about it if someone did complain. If a family physician only successfully treated 15% of their patients, they would be in big trouble for being incompetent. I would be shocked if MST tdocs have a 15% success rate but no one seems to care. They blame the parent and/or the kid. Who else blames the client when their advertised treatment fails? It's not all that hard to find out a rough idea of how many cases an attny has won or lost. Why can't a parent or any person find out a rough idea how many clients (what percentage of clientele) a MH prof has successfully treated?</p><p></p><p>If you check online for complaints at various prof's boards, you get things like I just gave. But if you look at the MH prof's board list of complaints, I bet you only see complaints/ actions against a MH prof who had an inappropriate relationship with a client. That tells me that this is the ONLY thing that board cares about. I can't tell you the times I have experienced calling a therapist asking them if they have experience in ABC or can they help with DEF problem, and they tell me they can, only to find that they are really a spiritual advisor or whatever and really have no experience whatsoever in what I asked about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 472741, member: 3699"] There's DF, Step, me, and a host of others here that have suffered from this and watched our difficult children continue to worsen as a result of idiocracy. That's not to excuse our difficult children or to convey that our difficult children would be 'cured' if these things changed, but a lot of money is being spent on bogus koi while agencies claim they have no money and the things these agencies are doing are things they have been doing for years that have no proven success rate. They aren't working and any time these people (agencies/governments) get more money, they throw it all at doing the same koi. We already know that stuff doesn't work. And they can't be held accountable. DJ- re. MH boards- I was thinking it should be more like the other profs' boards. For instance, a person can look online and see any complaints and board action against a licensee, and they can with a MH prof, too. In some cases, of course, the complaint turned out to be invalid and the prof retains the license with no reprimand or consequence. Usually, for most boards, these complaints aren't looked at too hard unless there are several complaints against one person or someone has been hurt, physically or financially, or mentally. Examples- say an electrical engineer has spent 15 years working at a power plant on energy systems then claims he can do all the electrical design for a huge building. The electrical system he designs fails and a complaint is waged. The board looks into it and finds the engineer never had any experience doing a complex electrical design for a building, even though his education alone might have allowed him to- he misrepresented himself and practiced outside his area of competency- he's in trouble. A MH prof could do something similar (and they do many times) and people don't know they can complain and their board wouldn't do squat about it if someone did complain. If a family physician only successfully treated 15% of their patients, they would be in big trouble for being incompetent. I would be shocked if MST tdocs have a 15% success rate but no one seems to care. They blame the parent and/or the kid. Who else blames the client when their advertised treatment fails? It's not all that hard to find out a rough idea of how many cases an attny has won or lost. Why can't a parent or any person find out a rough idea how many clients (what percentage of clientele) a MH prof has successfully treated? If you check online for complaints at various prof's boards, you get things like I just gave. But if you look at the MH prof's board list of complaints, I bet you only see complaints/ actions against a MH prof who had an inappropriate relationship with a client. That tells me that this is the ONLY thing that board cares about. I can't tell you the times I have experienced calling a therapist asking them if they have experience in ABC or can they help with DEF problem, and they tell me they can, only to find that they are really a spiritual advisor or whatever and really have no experience whatsoever in what I asked about. [/QUOTE]
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