Category: Accountability
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Lawful but awful
There’s a gap between what is lawful and what is right. With the therapy harm I experienced, I’ve learned that a clinician’s conduct can be wrong on several levels and still fail to trip a regulatory wire. I should preface this by saying that my complaint is still before the regulators, and she may yet…
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Why intent is irrelevant
When therapy harms a client, the first question people often ask is whether the therapist meant to do it. It’s the wrong question. Intent matters when we are judging a person’s character. It doesn’t decide whether the practitioner did their job safely. The Psychology Board of Australia’s current code of conduct says that ‘in law…
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Countersigned
Everything I have is now with the people whose job it is to make objective judgements about it. The weeks I have spent trawling through documents to compile my notification can stop. I should feel relief. Mostly I feel the opposite. A case officer has been assigned to read it. My first reaction was to…
