Suing a counselor (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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July 12, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | So deserving listeners, as I've talked about before in previous episodes, my malpractice insurance, |
| 0:14.3 | it sends me case examples of situations in which a therapist gets sued successfully by their clients or someone else. |
| 0:23.4 | Whenever I see these emails, I always read them. |
| 0:27.1 | There's so much that can be learned from what is in these case examples. |
| 0:32.4 | You not only learn about the law, of course, but you learn about ethical codes. |
| 0:37.0 | You also learn how these laws are |
| 0:39.2 | applied, which is actually not always intuitive and doesn't always match up with the common |
| 0:45.3 | understandings within our field. Judges and lawyers and juries, they don't always agree with |
| 0:51.7 | the way that us therapists, us counselors, see things, and they sometimes make very weird decisions. |
| 0:57.8 | So these case examples show us how these people apply the law to our field because the law is applied to us from people outside of the field. |
| 1:07.9 | It's important that we understand this stuff so we can avoid getting in |
| 1:11.1 | trouble and we can avoid getting sued or we can avoid losing our license or we can avoid |
| 1:16.1 | sleepless nights where we're like on, you know, we're teetering on our, you know, losing our |
| 1:21.1 | profession, our livelihood. Another reason why I love these case examples is because of Schadenfreude. |
| 1:29.2 | I get a little bit of pleasure reading about the misfortune of other people, |
| 1:34.3 | particularly when the therapist is clearly acting unethically, |
| 1:41.3 | a.k.a. stupidly. |
| 1:43.7 | Bob is with me on the podcast. Does that make me a bad person? |
| 1:47.4 | No, no, no. We find amusement where we find amusement, right? Yeah. You know, it's like the |
| 1:53.6 | pratt fall of the counseling business, you know? Yeah. It's like you're watching someone, |
| 1:58.4 | someone falls over and they're okay and you sort of laugh |
| 2:02.0 | and, you know, it's all about that. |
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