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Mental health and homeopathy
As I learn and read more about homeopathy, it brings up a lot of questions for me in my work life as a social worker. I provide psychotherapy mostly to children and teens. Ethically and legally we are taught to refer clients to a medical professional when they are experiencing problems that the medical profession deals with such as stomach problems, physical pain, etc. This makes perfect sense as I am not trained to deal with physical problems. And we are taught to refer them to a psychiatrist for suicidal threats, extreme moods and behaviors. The main reason is, of course, to see if medication will help them.I have never been comfortable with this practice except in severe cases. I always spend a lot of time talking with parents about it is their choice to put a child on meds and I have started giving them handouts about it, especially after the research came out on adolescents and anti-depressants and suicide risk. And it bothers me when parents tell me that someone suggested that a very young child needs to be on psychotropic medications.
Now with my knowledge that there is a way to help children with their moods and behaviors without putting them on medications that are probably harmful to them, I am more uncomfortable with this practice and I want to tell them about homeopathy. However, it is not a very accepted suggestion in my field. It is very much connected to the medical model, and even if social workers are not necessarily advocating the medical model, it is easy to get caught up in it and follow it.
Sometimes I can tell when a client is open to an alternative and I will suggest that they look into such and such. I still plan to try doing this and suggest homeopathy and even suggest going to the ND that we have in our city. However, many of my clients don't have the money to go to a place where it won't be covered on their insurance. If it was an easily obtainable service, I would more readily suggest it to these clients.
Anyway, I just thought this would be an interesting discussion if there are other people out there who are mental health professionals that do recommend homeopathy. How do you approach clients about it and how accepted is it by your colleagues and employers? I know in other countries it is more widely used and accepted, but here in the U.S., at least where I am, it is something that people do not know about and/or do not believe in.
Just wanting others' thoughts on this.
Linda
lmhoopes on 2005-01-14
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Hi Linda, have you read the post by Passkey on "why do people allow this?"
This is only the tip of the iceburg.
Be very careful to keep your job. You are needed for your compassion and direction even if you cannot do as much as you know.
The human race began to be taught to NOT think for themselves since the 18 hundreds. Now they cannot. They have been taught that there is no other medicine other than the MDieties.
Blessings, Sabra
This is only the tip of the iceburg.
Be very careful to keep your job. You are needed for your compassion and direction even if you cannot do as much as you know.
The human race began to be taught to NOT think for themselves since the 18 hundreds. Now they cannot. They have been taught that there is no other medicine other than the MDieties.
Blessings, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
We used to be able, as adult americans, to go to need to know books and sites, to find out anything we wished to know about AMA and so on. The constitutions first amendment insured freedom of speech through which our right to know has in the past been upheld. We cannot do this now.
The doors have been closed to us by corporations, because of proprietary patent information. This means they do not have to tell us anything. This began after the civil war when a clerk made an idle footnote on a supreme court ruling, and that footnote, set a precedent from that time that all corporations were natural persons with equal protection rights under the law.
We are at the mercy of our government, the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies (all corporations) to bring us completely under their control. It is all about money and power. THEY DO NOT CARE if their products kill or disable, they just want the money.
God save us all, Sabra
The doors have been closed to us by corporations, because of proprietary patent information. This means they do not have to tell us anything. This began after the civil war when a clerk made an idle footnote on a supreme court ruling, and that footnote, set a precedent from that time that all corporations were natural persons with equal protection rights under the law.
We are at the mercy of our government, the AMA and the pharmaceutical companies (all corporations) to bring us completely under their control. It is all about money and power. THEY DO NOT CARE if their products kill or disable, they just want the money.
God save us all, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
Yes, there are things one must do to keep a job, aren't there? At least I don't have to prescribe the nasty anti-depressants, etc., to my clients!
I do think that there could be a perfect marriage in the U.S. betwen mental health and homeopathy. I have even thought that there should be a way to help low income people receive these services, perhaps through a grant, although I am pretty sure that the people that fund social services, health and mental health services aren't going to put their money behind homeopathy.
Linda
I do think that there could be a perfect marriage in the U.S. betwen mental health and homeopathy. I have even thought that there should be a way to help low income people receive these services, perhaps through a grant, although I am pretty sure that the people that fund social services, health and mental health services aren't going to put their money behind homeopathy.
Linda
lmhoopes last decade
After many years in homeopathy I am convinced that pharmeceuticals only damage people. Hahnemann , the father of modern homeopathy , said that they should use homeopathy to empty the Asylums!. My opinion of any Medical person who prescribes chemical drugs of any kind is that they are crazed . Not only that but they are ducking out of their responsibility to take the time and trouble to treat psychologically NOT chemically.
You do realise that this site is open to anyone?.
You do realise that this site is open to anyone?.
passkey last decade
Yes, I know that anyone can make use of this site. It is a very good resource that I will remember if I am working with someone who takes an interest in alternative ways to deal with these issues. However, many of my clients don't have internet access at their fingertips as I do. And for the people with limited incomes, they often have limited transportation to get them to access a computer at a library, etc.
This site is a wonderful resource and I am thankful I have a computer or ways to get to a computer if mine is down.
This site is a wonderful resource and I am thankful I have a computer or ways to get to a computer if mine is down.
lmhoopes last decade
Hi Linda,
Think about looking up local Homeopathy schools if they are in your area, as some schools have free clinics coordinated with the community, or finding local homeopaths and see what they are doing and resources they may know of that are more holistic, and maybe community based.
Unfortunately, it goes state by state and the "freedom to practice" states, are far more advanced with homeopathic community programs, such as CA and Minn.
Good luck...you are on the right path!
Loree
Think about looking up local Homeopathy schools if they are in your area, as some schools have free clinics coordinated with the community, or finding local homeopaths and see what they are doing and resources they may know of that are more holistic, and maybe community based.
Unfortunately, it goes state by state and the "freedom to practice" states, are far more advanced with homeopathic community programs, such as CA and Minn.
Good luck...you are on the right path!
Loree
loree last decade
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