On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have not found yet where it > > says he is actually administering treatment - but as Kevin notes, this > > probably is not necessary to establish a treatment relationship. I am > pretty > > sure that in my profession (clinical psychology), the standard is that a > > professional in a situation like this can be assumed to be offering > > treatment unless they give a clear and explicit disclaimer. > > Again, the common sense quotient seems to be called for here. (SNIP) > I don't disagree with the common sense assessment, but my interest today in this story has been in terms of more technical questions of whether this physician is in violation of professional ethics. One of the elements of an ethics violation is that a treatment relationship exists. Pinsky does not have a professional relationship with some guy on the bar stool next to him, and has no professional duty to him. He also would not have a professional relationship with a guest or cast member on an entertainment program that he hosted (as long as he explicitly identified it as an entertainment program, since a reasonable inference could be made that he was offering treatment if the context of the program seemed to suggest it). > Rereading the statement he made to "The View" makes me dislike him > more. His claim is that because his victims weren't seeing him at the > time of their deaths, he wasn't as responsible as if they were still > seeing him on a regular basis. It highlights a major problem in TV > therapy -- the lack of follow-up. Once someone has fulfilled their > obligation to provide "good" television, they are kicked to the curb > to fend for themselves. Ask any friend of Bill W and he/she will tell > you addiction is a lifelong condition, and there is no "cure," but > once the season has wrapped, where do the addicts turn for help? Agreed (though not quite so much on AA's lifelong disease model) - but to be fair continuity of care and longterm follow-up is a major weakness in the entire system, not just with TV therapy. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
