🚀 go-pugleaf

Adding a to the issue of attraction in therapy...

You've decided that you need to refer the client to another therapist.
Now, do you explain why you are referring them elsewhere?  Or do you let
the client guess as to your reasoning/motives?  What if from the perception
of the client the therapy has been highly beneficial, and now you tell them
you can not help them anymore.  As a client my questions would be "Why not?
 What have a done wrong?  Am I that messed up?" etc.  So, I would think you
have to provide some explanation.  Do you lie?  Do you become evasive? Or
do you tell the truth (as some have already suggested)?

I am not in a therapy related field (human factors/psychometrics actually)
so maybe this isn't as big a concern as I think, or perhaps there are
guidelines available on how to do referals of which I'm not aware.  But I
do find the issue intriguing...

- Marc

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G. Marc Turner  (gmturner@bga.com)
http://www.psych.swt.edu/GMTurner/index.html
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