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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 359131" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Well I'm not worried abbout this at all anymore- I must not have said that outright in my last post. My concern had been about having a test to determine mental health treatment without including info that would be needed tto make a correct assessment. That is what was planned last year. They are not going to do that now. They might end up giving the test or another one still but it will be after the clinical interview so I have no problem with that. Obviously, I am willing to address a real problem as long as it's diagnosis'd appropriately and not based on someone elses biased opinion (who is not a mental health prof). If I'd had to go to court for a show cause last year, I had a letter from the therapist I was seeing then to prove what you are suggesting, Crazy. MST guy asked is I was seeiing a therapist now and I told him no because I did not have insurance anymore. That's when he said the county mental health dept doesn't even provide therapy to adults anymore in most cases. Then he added that I shouldn't worry about it because it might not be an issue if the psychiatric evaluation'ing me sees that I go to a therapist when necessary. He asked why I was seeing a therapist last year and I told him my stress level had gone thru the roof due to a increasing crisis situation with difficult child and I wanted to get help clearing my head to make sure I was making good decisions regarding difficult child and not making bad choices out of a reaction to stress. That was true and the letter the therapist wrote then said I was seeing her to discuss matters pertaining to my son.</p><p></p><p>But, even if I was still going to have to take the MMPI without a clinical interview (which again, all info I have rec'd says that is a very bad idea for a psychiatric to do and can most definitely lead to inaccurate results), I still felt better about that after learning that it wasn't meant to be the type of mental health evaluation that I had been envisioning based on those words written on the court order.</p><p></p><p>Oh- as far as the tester- I think the MMPI is one of those tests that they say should be interpreted by a psychiatric - not just any licensed therapist- siimilar to the idea that if we have our difficult child's tested, we can have more faith in results if it is done by a PhD level psychiatric than by the ed spec at the sd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 359131, member: 3699"] Well I'm not worried abbout this at all anymore- I must not have said that outright in my last post. My concern had been about having a test to determine mental health treatment without including info that would be needed tto make a correct assessment. That is what was planned last year. They are not going to do that now. They might end up giving the test or another one still but it will be after the clinical interview so I have no problem with that. Obviously, I am willing to address a real problem as long as it's diagnosis'd appropriately and not based on someone elses biased opinion (who is not a mental health prof). If I'd had to go to court for a show cause last year, I had a letter from the therapist I was seeing then to prove what you are suggesting, Crazy. MST guy asked is I was seeiing a therapist now and I told him no because I did not have insurance anymore. That's when he said the county mental health dept doesn't even provide therapy to adults anymore in most cases. Then he added that I shouldn't worry about it because it might not be an issue if the psychiatric evaluation'ing me sees that I go to a therapist when necessary. He asked why I was seeing a therapist last year and I told him my stress level had gone thru the roof due to a increasing crisis situation with difficult child and I wanted to get help clearing my head to make sure I was making good decisions regarding difficult child and not making bad choices out of a reaction to stress. That was true and the letter the therapist wrote then said I was seeing her to discuss matters pertaining to my son. But, even if I was still going to have to take the MMPI without a clinical interview (which again, all info I have rec'd says that is a very bad idea for a psychiatric to do and can most definitely lead to inaccurate results), I still felt better about that after learning that it wasn't meant to be the type of mental health evaluation that I had been envisioning based on those words written on the court order. Oh- as far as the tester- I think the MMPI is one of those tests that they say should be interpreted by a psychiatric - not just any licensed therapist- siimilar to the idea that if we have our difficult child's tested, we can have more faith in results if it is done by a PhD level psychiatric than by the ed spec at the sd. [/QUOTE]
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