Position Statements
Our Position on Informed Consent
Executive Summary Informed consent is being delivered in a sterile, minimalist manner that satisfies legal teams but does very little to actually inform patients of potential outcomes. We believe the rapid decline in the quality of informed consent is due largely to the verticalization of healthcare which has produced a shift in professional priorities from…
Read MoreOur Position on Professional Competency
Executive Summary Professional Competency is a high level of service delivery built on science and evidence-based platforms, polished with high moral and ethical standards. There is little if any room for social agendas or political ideologies in the academic preparation of our next generation of therapists. Professional Competency It is our position that the academic…
Read MoreOur Position on Familial Estrangement
Executive Summary The West, particularly the USA, finds itself in a major uptick in the number of documented familial estrangements. The shift in both reported type and volume began in the late 19th century and continues to the present with highly detrimental effects on all participants, both short and long-term. The materials-based survival issues that…
Read MoreOur Position on The Transgender GAC Issue
Executive Summary We believe that there are only two sexes, male and female; that the transgender affirming care issue is a mental health issue with underlying causes that need to be explored, identified, and treated. We believe that grown adults are entitled to determine their own course of action on this topic but we in…
Read MoreOur Position on the Workforce Shortage
Executive Summary A common-sense analysis of available population and licensee numbers leads us to conclude that there is no mental healthcare workforce shortage in TX (LPC and LMFT’s). Rather, we are experiencing improper career guidance and placement of human resource allocation beginning in academia, and economic realities that make placement of trained personnel in…
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