Urgent piece, Dean. We are, indeed, in a mental health/public health crisis with the current trajectory of our respective fields.
And I can only hope that, for one, people take seriously the clear and concrete advice you offer in this paragraph: "Allow me to pause for a moment to issue an important public service announcement: If you are seeking mental health care, I strongly recommend that you ask your clinician if they operate from an antizionist lens... Ask in a way that does not reveal if you see this as a positive or negative. A forewarning. These professionals have a beguiling ability to sound compassionate, so be sure to focus on the content of their words rather than the vocal tone. If that professional even hints that they operate as antizionist therapists, run as far from that person as possible. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing at all, in the way of evidentiary support for that. It is merely an excuse to engage in discriminatory practices in the conduct of treatment. And it is also not in any way related to the ordinary reasons people seek treatment. The mental health professions are in a serious crisis. And as it worsens, the threat to the public deepens, since moral relativism allows clinicians to deny care to anyone solely because of objections to their viewpoints, whatever those may be."
I'm going to keep issuing this PSA, it is such a miscarriage of ethics that anyone would deign to openly advertise or even state to someone directly that they willingly operate in a discriminatory manner.
Yes, keep up with your PSA's! I'm with you. We must keep speaking truth, especially as these discriminatory non clinical "approaches" become normalized and continue to cause great harm.
Thanks, Dean. Vital information that I am sharing immediately.
Urgent piece, Dean. We are, indeed, in a mental health/public health crisis with the current trajectory of our respective fields.
And I can only hope that, for one, people take seriously the clear and concrete advice you offer in this paragraph: "Allow me to pause for a moment to issue an important public service announcement: If you are seeking mental health care, I strongly recommend that you ask your clinician if they operate from an antizionist lens... Ask in a way that does not reveal if you see this as a positive or negative. A forewarning. These professionals have a beguiling ability to sound compassionate, so be sure to focus on the content of their words rather than the vocal tone. If that professional even hints that they operate as antizionist therapists, run as far from that person as possible. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing at all, in the way of evidentiary support for that. It is merely an excuse to engage in discriminatory practices in the conduct of treatment. And it is also not in any way related to the ordinary reasons people seek treatment. The mental health professions are in a serious crisis. And as it worsens, the threat to the public deepens, since moral relativism allows clinicians to deny care to anyone solely because of objections to their viewpoints, whatever those may be."
Thanks, Andrea!
I'm going to keep issuing this PSA, it is such a miscarriage of ethics that anyone would deign to openly advertise or even state to someone directly that they willingly operate in a discriminatory manner.
Yes, keep up with your PSA's! I'm with you. We must keep speaking truth, especially as these discriminatory non clinical "approaches" become normalized and continue to cause great harm.