I’m a retired home health psych RN so I definitely have my biases as far as the therapist is concerned. There are proven problems with trying to change a person’s orientation, especially if the person is a child and the person has no desire to change or this is initiated by a parent or the therapist. A therapist has no right to impose their views on their clients, esp children, this can involve a lot of guilt and having seen the results of some of this “therapy” when working in a locked adolescent unit, not only can I definitely not condone it, but I think that therapist should be sued from here to eternity. It’s highly unethical. The question of banning books, while I don’t believe in it, should be up to the parents alone, not the schools. Kids are able to find books that are “banned” and the parents should have the total responsibility of taking to their child about why they prefer their kid avoid it. It should not be the responsibility of the schools, no one should be talking to another’s child about their reading, period. But serious psychological damage can be done to a person with “conversion therapy” and that is truly immoral, that person is no “therapist” but is trying to force her values on someone else. That is not therapy, it’s indoctrination, and that makes nobody feel better.
Going back to the Middle Ages. Just the thought of it makes me furious. Kaley Chiles, what an ignorant and stupid person! It's just disgusting.
I’m a retired home health psych RN so I definitely have my biases as far as the therapist is concerned. There are proven problems with trying to change a person’s orientation, especially if the person is a child and the person has no desire to change or this is initiated by a parent or the therapist. A therapist has no right to impose their views on their clients, esp children, this can involve a lot of guilt and having seen the results of some of this “therapy” when working in a locked adolescent unit, not only can I definitely not condone it, but I think that therapist should be sued from here to eternity. It’s highly unethical. The question of banning books, while I don’t believe in it, should be up to the parents alone, not the schools. Kids are able to find books that are “banned” and the parents should have the total responsibility of taking to their child about why they prefer their kid avoid it. It should not be the responsibility of the schools, no one should be talking to another’s child about their reading, period. But serious psychological damage can be done to a person with “conversion therapy” and that is truly immoral, that person is no “therapist” but is trying to force her values on someone else. That is not therapy, it’s indoctrination, and that makes nobody feel better.