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To: MHOCCA List <mhocca@egroups.com> From: Andrew Phelps <starfish@northcoast.com>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:23:22 PST Subject: Re: [MHOCCA] Psych Charts |
Debi wrote:
What has struck me, is that we are fighting discrimination against us and saying we are capable of working in other than ‘token’ positions. .. that we don’t have ‘broken brains’. Yet, there is the concern that peers will read our chart. While I could be just as displeased or uncomfortable about a peer reading my chart, when I look at the fight against discrimination, I think we cannot have it both ways.Well I agree that it would be discriminatory to consider that because we are clients, we should therefore NOT have access to charts. The problem IMHO lies in a different place, that nobody is accountable for abuses this way. I see/hear of two things which should give you pause — (1) peer providers exploiting the ‘confidential’ knowledge to hurt peers they know socially and (2) peer providers quitting or backing off because they are compromised by the conflict of social relations v. treatment regimes. What I see is a breakdown of ethics. Our problem is to address that. In the present situation by and large people are NOT addressing that, the system isn’t, and the partnership/recovery agenda is not either. To me the gist of Tom’s complaint is that things are out of hand, and nobody is taking responsibility. Respectfully Andrew |
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