Don't feel like you need to apologise, it's a simple mistake. I have been using clinical therapist/counselor or masters level clinical therapist as my title because it helps me delineate between the APA Goldwater rules and the rules of the organization overseeing my profession. I have kept quiet on which of the 4 or so different orgs I fall under to help my anonymity, but it doesn't matter because even though most restrictive of the overseeing bodies at the masters level with regard to ethics, if doing this is ethical. It's also why I keep making disclaimers all the time, I feel like next I'm going to cause cancer in California with all the disclaimers I keep making. So the specific org i fall under doesn't matter because I would be ethically covered regardless.
I appreciate the apology though. I almost want to create an infographic to explain the ethical requirements of each one for easy consumption.
Right.
First, not a psychologist and never claimed to be.
Second, most of the codes of ethics have this in there in different forms. So even using that one, the argument they are making would mean that even doing diagnostics on a client and that severely upset them, they would violate this clause. This is aimed to protect clients and research subjects from undergoing severely distressing things like the Milgram experiment without informed consent. Or making your clients undergo traumatic types of treatments.
I'm sure
@AnOminous could chime in on that one.
Now the person can dislike my analysis. But my intention was never to cause Ron any harm. FROM THE START I've said I wanted to help him out of i could.
@Ron Toye Would you characterize my analysis of you and subsequent conversations with you to be degrading, cruel or inhumane. And if so, do you think I did this intentionally or I had an intent to harm you? Feel free to answer honestly.
