Clinical vs Advocacy

• Responses to First Learning about Affect Theory by Jim Duffy a.k.a. J.C.D., 2/28/97
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    • We Have a Healthy Difference about Clinicians as Change Agents...and with Respect! by c.h., 3/14/97
      
      

c.h. Hello again. I certainly don't think we are going to disagree on this one! I have always thought that if one ,as a therapist, was involved with a population (ie. MR, Elderly.MI etc.) that it is incumbent upon her/him to also advocate on behalf of that population. To merely sit back and and provide counseling/social work to that population without attempting to raise consciousnesses relative to that population is nothing short of laziness if not cowardice. My present primary advocacy is and will always be with the mentally retarded (preferred label "slow learner"). I think I was responding to what I percieved to be a muddying of the waters. Therapy is actually ,or should be, only one component of advocacy. The others should include: support groups, consciousness raising, continued professional development (self), and civil disobedience (prn). I think we have a strong link here. .........Ed

• Strong Link...and How Shame Enters into the Clinical vs Advocacy Question by c.h., 3/20/97
  • Group Advocacy vs Client Advocacy by Ed Riemann, 3/22/97