Counselor Gets Sued
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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00:00 Counselor gets sued
01:54 What happened?
19:36 Would Bob be comfortable being recorded without his knowledge?
30:32 What is the rest of the story & outcome?
1:01:58 Would Bob have called CPS?
1:12:35 What's the moral of the story?
1:19:12 Would you refer patients to IOP?
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, my malpractice insurance sent me a brief that describes a case in which someone was |
| 0:06.7 | successfully sued and you know how much vicarious enjoyment I get out of out of this sort of thing |
| 0:13.7 | because usually these clinicians, these counselors, these therapists make some pretty obvious mistakes |
| 0:20.8 | and as a very staunch rule follower myself, there's something, there's some bit of a sick |
| 0:28.8 | enjoyment that I get from reading these therapists who are being sued successfully. So let's read it, |
| 0:34.0 | what do you say? Sure. Do you get any kind of pleasure from this? No, usually I get nervous. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, well I think another enjoyment is for me anyway is that when we study ethics and we |
| 0:47.9 | hear stories in our field, it usually makes us paranoid thinking am I going to get sued. But when |
| 0:53.2 | you read these stories, the mistakes they make are so obvious that you're like, oh, I'm way far |
| 0:59.9 | from these thresholds. Like the things that these people are doing are so far and the other aspect |
| 1:06.4 | that is I think comforting is a lot of times these therapists, even after making some pretty bad |
| 1:11.9 | mistakes, they're still allowed to practice afterwards. They just have to take some training or |
| 1:16.3 | they're on probation, they pay a fee and it's usually, they usually recover as the point. They're |
| 1:22.0 | not locked up in some sort of therapy jail. So I find that there's a lot of emotional benefits to |
| 1:29.6 | and another thing is you learn how this system actually operates. Instead of having this |
| 1:35.1 | amorphous monster that's out there ready to pounce on you every time you make a mistake in your |
| 1:40.5 | practice, you can actually see the process and go, oh, it's a very rational level headed process |
| 1:49.9 | that isn't out to get us. That's good. So this is from my malpractice insurance. It's a |
| 1:59.6 | publication they sent out every now and then. It's HPSO or health care providers service |
| 2:06.1 | organizations by malpractice. What's your malpractice? It's through, wait, what is it? Well, there's |
| 2:11.7 | American professional agency. That's the one, yeah. So I'm going to read and I've sort of reworded |
| 2:18.8 | some of the things to make it more podcast friendly. The insured or the counselor, the insured |
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