>I'm really interested in your comment that
>> I serve on the board of a mental health center and the staff there is
>> adamantly opposed to broadening their scope to preventative measures.
>Do you have a sense of their underlying reasons for resisting addressing
>prevention measures? I'm a little wary of my own cynicism that jumps to
>ask whether they are concerned about losing their income streams. Is it
>perhaps that some of them don't feel appropriately trained to do
>prevention? Is it the difficulty of clearly understanding the causation
>questions here? or the probable complexity of the causation?
[Host's Note: I added the > to indicate the quoted material. ...Rick]
I suspect that their resistance may have been influenced by all of these
reasons. I believe it is also a matter of their identity being as
therapists who provide a critical service to people in great pain.
Perhaps it is a less noble calling to work with persons who are seeking to
stay well. They would have trained to be educators rather than therapists
if that is the life they had chosen.
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