From Nick Wallis' GenderBlog today:
Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients – GenderBlog
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) has proposed requiring its therapists to “actively promote inclusion” during therapy sessions and “ensure that any discriminatory attitudes and behaviours are challenged” when expressed by patients.
The BABCP regulates psychotherapists and BABCP accreditation is considered important for any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) working in the NHS. It has more than 23,000 members. The new requirements are part of a proposed overhaul to the BABCP’s Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics, which, if approved, will come into force later this year....
Susan Forbes is a BABCP member and has been a psychotherapist for 25 years. She has worked with detransitioners and individuals with what she calls “gender distress”....
Forbes calls the proposed ban on challenging beliefs “dangerous”, because “it makes it impossible for the therapist to work in the client’s best interest. We cannot offer effective therapy if we treat every aspect of their self-concept as immune from therapeutic examination or change....”
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I wonder if this is just another of BABCP's "ideas" or if they are trying to get ahead of the Conversion Bill failing? Or trying to get ready for a successful Conversion Act?
The few comments on the blog are interesting. It appears that BABCP's consultation received a few hundred responses out of some 23,000 members. Did the other members not respond because they didn't know about the consultation, didn't care to respond, or were they afraid to respond?