Mine is fresh highschool graduates getting 2 weeks of training to go work acute, all-male forensic psychiatry. We’re taking criminally insane men who are unsafe to put on a unit with criminally insane women.
…and they would send fresh high school graduates (often girls because hospitals in general tend to be female-dominated) in the yoga pants and club makeup they think are proffessional because they literally have 0 previous work experience to sit suicide watch for criminally insane rapists who said they were suicidal because they knew they would send some 18y/o who doesn’t know any better to sit with them. It went about how you would expect the hundreds of times I watched it happen.
My favorite float technician was the 60 year old guy who was super gassy and looked like an off-season Santa. Everybody hated that guy because they said he was super lazy but he would sit suicide watch all fucking shift without complaining and he almost never failed to dissapoint a sex pest who thought they were gonna get some eye candy (or worse).
What’s your example?
Police, Judges, Presidents, Therapists, Executives, the whole US scammer industry of Noctors (“Functional” Neurologists and other chiropractors)
Therapists? Where can one become one without a masters? Or it like a pseudo therapist… homeopathy esque?
Licensed Clinical Social Workers are a dime a dozen, and while there are some excellent ones, they’re diamonds in a very abrasive rough. I have had mixed luck with PhD psychologists as well. Engineers and psychologists with PhDs were the first people I met who made me realize a PhD indicates someone is persistent, but not necessarily smart.
But getting the PhD was the training. So it isn’t that they never received training it is that the training they received sucked and didn’t actually help them in the real world.
LCSW requires a minimum 4 years college education, and an LCSW is not the equivalent of a therapist.
I’m almost certain that every state not only requires at least an accredited master’s degree, but also a state board license that involves at least 2 years of clinical supervision. However, the supervision is based on the honor system of other licensed therapists, so there isn’t much oversight of the quality. Clinical supervisors usually charge for supervision, so there is a conflict of interest.