Friday
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I don't think it's the therapists job necessarily to figure out what's true and what isn't.
It wasn't a question of truth for me, and if I muddled that, my apologies. It was the ethically obligated not to & various versions of "not allowed" & "that's wrong" full stop. Like engaging in a relationship with a client is wrong, full stop.
I think there's a lot of different paths to the same goal, that still fall in the range of ethical behavior. Fact checking & challenging assertions neither seem -to me- to fall outside the bounds of what a therapist is morally obligated to do. I could be wrong. Often am. But I'd be suprized if therapists were forbidden from asking for verification.