wedonot: (Pissy face.)
Dr. Charles Xavier ([personal profile] wedonot) wrote 2013-11-10 05:16 pm (UTC)

Re: voicejack

Yes, I'm being human centric. Iris, if you told me that in your culture, Time Lords train therapists by teaching them elaborate dance routines to help their patients and encourage them to have sex with them and that's it, I'd be slightly confused and maybe a little put off because that isn't how I was trained, but I wouldn't forbid you from practicing or write you off entirely because we were trained differently. The issue is that Zane doesn't have training at all, and he offered to use Soothing, which I understand is and can be extremely helpful for someone who's feeling upset and depressed, but that isn't enough when you're dealing with someone who's complating self harm or suicide, or is grappling with mental illness or the abuse they've suffered, and thinking it is enough shows there's some training that would need to happen before I felt comfortable promoting him as a licensed therapist. If I said otherwise, I wouldn't deserve to be here, because it's something that should be taken very seriously.

And while some of us have another person's emotional well being in our hands? Some of us weren't qualified to do that in the first place, and some of us can acknowledge that there are some things we aren't qualified to treat by ourselves, which is part of why Mark and I started offering this, as well as giving wardens someone to talk to who isn't just a friend or family member if they needed it. And it's something that has been on the table for months now, with the same basic qualifications necessary, so I don't understand why my pointing out that some basic training would be required before handing over the reigns is something that's only now posing a problem.

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