On 2006-02-21 12:52:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I'm sure they didn't last. Anyone with ACTUAL credentials as a counselor would recognize the kind of crap Daytop dishes out as nothing more than cultish rhetoric.
You're outwitted, outclassed and outdone. :wave: "
That's spot on accurate. Anybody with a degree and/or an ounce of professionalism left Daytop very quickly. There's no science to their method. Not even junk science.
From the perspective of professional mental health care, the Daytop program is absolutely worthless for anything except fostering dependence upon itself and creating "lifelong junkies" incapable of meaningful personal change.
I watched people there that began as counselors by graduating the program and were completely vested in its methods. Some later went on to get an education in mental health. The ones that became properly educated left immediately because they were exposed to facts about mental hygiene that they quickly realized were diametrically opposed to Daytop's dogma.
The bottom line is that if one understands the ethical responsibility of a mental health provider, one cannot philosophically justify employment at Daytop. It's really that simple. Only uneducated unprofessional hacks espouse Daytop's methodology. They quite simply don't know any better (like this dummy, the "original poster").
If ignorance is bliss, the "original poster" is a very happy fellow.