What Do We Do About Professional Competency?

Can We Save Professional Competency? Anyone who has been around since before the year 2000 knows that the bar of practice competency in the mental health field is arguably much lower than it was just two decades ago. It’s been slowly and subtly redefined to operate not from a base of replicable, peer-reviewed science to…

Phillip Crums Public Comments 5-1-26

By Phillip Crum

I’m Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, co-founder of AMHP. What’s the Problem? The long-term feminization of the discipline has produced a woke professional mindset that believes a practice should be run on feelings, equality of outcome as long as someone else is paying for it, and virtue signaling. Underlying it all is a group-think, “terminal empathy”.…

Call to Action

By Phillip Crum

This is your call to action. Did you know that the American Revolution was fought and won with only less than 3% of the American population participating in a role other than grousing about things in a public tavern? Less than 3%. The remainder were content to let someone else do the heavy lifting and…

On the Use of Facilitation Tactics

By Phillip Crum

Can therapists still legally use facilitation tactics like a minor patient’s preferred pronouns, cross-gender new name, promote cross-dressing and the use of chest binders now that physical transitioning of minors is illegal in TX? Looking for Loopholes for Facilitation Tactics I’ve seen that question posed in online groups by counselors looking for loopholes to continue…

Paxton Opinion KP-0401 Reviewed (Child Abuse)

By Phillip Crum

Just finished studying the Paxton Opinion KP-0401 from 2022 (again) which clarified the relationship of GAC to child abuse in TX. Here’s a summary of the key takeaway points for mental health counselors. Two Primary Questions Matt Krause, Chair of the House Committee on General Investigating posed two key questions of Paxton’s office: 1. Does…