Now a doctor has every right, and should have every right, to step aside and refer to another medical practitioner if a course of treatment conflicts with their personal beliefs. A therapist should be able to do the same. If a doctor choose to a different course of treatment because the standard and accepted treatment conflicted with their beliefs and something happened, patient suffered or died, they should be accountable. So should a therapist.
I'm pretty sure if you withhold lifesaving treatment you can face criminal charges. In this case given the age of the person and that being under 18, the parents, the hospital and any/all therapists should all be sitting at a defense table facing lengthy jail terms.
The medical community is no different than prisons, if all beds aren't full somebody is slacking off. If the cattle, sorry I mean patients put up with crappy medical practices and they end up getting experimented on and still say nothing then why would they expect things to get better on their own. Things go wrong on their own, it is a one way street.
Try reading the article. It clearly states the parents are believers in some gawd. They are the ones that decided their kid needed this ridiculous therapy. No one mention anything about any book of fairy tales.
I did, my reply was to your post and your use of the term 'believer'. You can't answer for them and they can't answer for you. You seem to have forgotten that you can answer for you and defection isn't always taken as being a reply by some people, like me obviously.
Perhaps you should read it a few times yourself, the professionals are also said to be 'Christian'. To show that you don't have a clue, that would be a Priest and they would use the Bible as a basis for finding comfort for somebody wanting clearance from God.
So, no such animal exists to begin with so whoever he say was putting on a show and if he got paid for his services then you can start there and go through all his files to see how his other parients are doing. Who ya going to sent, a Priest or the best on staff from 'the mentally unbalanced ward?
"Funny people these
believer. Claim gawd doesn't make mistakes and then force their kid to suicide by trying to change what their gawd made for them."
So that would be his professional help so it would their advice that was the cause rather than the parents seeking help. I met several through marriage councelling and not one of them woulod ever use something from the Bible as a way to treat how a person's reaction when a button gets pushed. Button being a key-word or vision of an act that recreates an emotion based on past memories. The reaction may produce healthy or unhealty reaction, more often than not it is unhealthy 100% of the time. Just the initial reaction can be changed, it's called clean-out your closet of emotional junk so that your buttons are still there and they can still be pushed but your reaction eliminated all the past issues and your automatic reaction is based altering that the situation is the same but your ability to control the situation is changed to how you should handle it that fits what our society calls normal.