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Treatment of Sex Offenders
In 1998, Colorado established a life-time-of- supervision law for sex offenders. Since then only two convicted sex offenders have been paroled. These inmates are also given therapy, not with the hope of curing them, but instead with the goal to teach them how to manage their behavior. When an offender goes on parole he does so with the recommendation of his therapist. In 2005 the Colorado Department of Corrections decided that the public had the right to know sex offenders' progress which includes their therapists' recommendations.
Tags: sex offenders; law; therapy
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Graveyard Shift
The LA Times reports in a two -part series on the case of respiratory therapist Efren Saldivar. "At night in the hospital, the 'Angel of Death' preyed on the helpless. Finally the 'goody-goody' was one of the bad guys. But as patients died, talk of his 'magic syringe' spread among fellow respiratory therapists."
Tags: Angel of Death; euthanasia; Glendale Adventist Medical Center; respiratory therapist; Efren Saldivar
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Respiratory care workers under close scrutiny
Hospital-generated complaints about respiratory therapists have soared in the two years since California lawmakers mandated reporting of their on-the-job suspensions and firings, according to state Respiratory Care Board records.
Tags: respiratory therapists; Efren Saldivar; Respiratory Care Board; respiratory care practitioners; respiratory care therapists
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Ten Things Your HMO Won't Tell You
SmartMoney magazine reports on the most common ways in which HMO companies can and do hurt their customers. Some of these are: the less your doctor sees you, the more he earns; Your primary-care doctor is your specialist; your health is a numbers game to us; Our exclusions could kill you; you are not sick until we tell you're sick; your ignorance is our bliss; we're loose with the facts; we use second-rate parts; Send you to an expensive therapist? are you crazy?; unhappy? go ahead, just try to sue us.
Tags: HMO; health insurance; patient care.
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Cult of Madness
The Dallas Observer reports on a woman whose therapy made her insane. Martha Hurt sought psychiatric help for marriage problems and depression, what she would up with were memories of sexual abuse and over 200 personalities. The article follows hurt through the dissolution of her relationship with her parents, husband and children to her lawsuit against the therapists she now believes made her sicker than when she came to them. Martha Hurt is just one of many women who have found themselves in similar situations after multiple personality disorder and repressed memories became psychological fads.
Tags: psychology; multiple personality disorder; repressed memories; International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation; False Memory Syndrome Foundation
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Suffer the Children
This story "examines some of the issues surrounding Reactive Attachment Disorder, a psychological term applied to youths who develop abnormal coping mechanisms as a result of early childhood trauma. RAD, children, in general, have great difficulty bonding with parents and other family members. In more extreme cases, the children may exhibit violent or erotic behavior. ... This article approaches the topic from an unusual angle -- from the point of view of pioneering psychologist Foster Cline, who is seeking compassion for parents and therapists who deal with RAD-afflicited children."
Tags: Reactive Attachment Disorder; children; therapists; parents; psychology
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Dangerous Memories
Under hypnosis by her therapist, Kathleen Sullivan--the daughter of a rich North Shore family--suddenly remembered that she had been the victim of childhood sexual abuse by her older brother. The revelation sparked a nasty legal battle when her parents sued the therapist, claiming he had planted the idea. After a dramatic trial last spring, a mystery remains; what, if anything, happened years ago to spawn this family tragedy?
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When Evil Resides Within the Therapy
Ketter examines the emergence of 'ritual abuse survivors' and questions the involvement of some therapists in this emergence.
Tags: ritual abuse
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The Press-Enterprise runs a series about the Phantom Family Syndrome, the failure of families and of society as a whole to nurture and protect every child. Without purpose, values or boundaries, or the security of a stable home, youngsters feel lost and hopeless. This is a national crisis in children's mental health. One article tells how parents can help their children bloom. Also, drugs are all therapists have to offer aometimes to troubled children because insurers won't pay for more expensive talk therapy. The status of local mental-health services for children are too little and too late.(Dec. 18, 20, 21, 1994)
Tags: Schwartz Minding a generation Drug abuse Insurance Suicide Children Drugs 18pgs
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The Rapist Says He's Sorry
GQ's Tom Junod writes about Mitchell Gaff, a convicted rapist and sexual predator. Gaff lives in a facility Washington created for sexual predators. Gaff's therapists think there's a chance that he won't rape again next time he has the opportunity. The article discusses the 1990 Community Protection Act, the Sexually Violent Predator Law and whether treatment works for sex offenders.
Tags: punishment prison rehabilitation mental personality disorder Special Commitment Center