Allaboutcounseling.com is All About Hating Men and Exploiting Women
- From: "MCP" <gf010w5035@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:33:48 +0200
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/09/24/allaboutcounseling-com-is-all-about-hating-men-and-exploiting-women/
By Paul Elam
ALL ABOUT MANIPULATION OF CLIENTS
I recently posted the following article to my website, avoiceformen.com. I
also sent an email to all the mental health professionals from the state of
California that are listed on that site informing them of ethical breeches
and advising them that it was my intent to expose those breeches to the
public at large with every measure at my disposal.
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COMABUSIVE MANIPULATION OF CLIENTSI recently posted the
following article to my website, avoiceformen.com. I also sent an email to
all the mental health professionals from the state of California that are
listed on that site informing them of the ethical breeches and advising them
that it was my intent to expose those breeches to the public at large with
every measure at my disposalABUSIVE MANIPULATION OF CLIENTS I recently
posted the following article to my website, avoiceformen.com. I also sent
an email to all the mental health professionals from the state of California
that are listed on that site informing them of the ethical breeches and
advising them that it was my intent to expose those breeches to the public
at large with every measure at my disposal.Subsequently I have received
several emails from those listed advising me that they were terminating
their affiliation with the site. It is time, especially after conferring
with Publisher Mike LaSalle, to provide even more incentive.
Here is the article I referenced, followed by the email I sent them. After
the 30 days have elapsed, I will write an update to this story and will
include the name and contact information for all mental health professionals
from California still affiliated with ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM
I urge all MRA's to post this article to their blogs and websites, and to
use the keywords "counseling" "client abuse" and other similar phrases for
the benefit of search engine results that will tie the disinformation on the
site and its unethical practices directly to it's subscribers.
Here is the original article:
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM IS ALL ABOUT ABUSE
Most of the mental health related "helping professions" e.g.,
psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists and counselors, have a code
of ethics that guides their professional conduct. They are sworn,
supposedly at the risk of their professional licenses, to follow the ethical
mandates of that code in how they conduct their practices and in their
relationships with clients.
The rules require them to maintain objectivity, to offer accurate
information to the best of their ability and to act in the clients best
interests at all times.
Failing to do that is considered professional abuse and is subject to
sanctions. In most places, professionals are admonished to take all this
into account regarding their professional affiliations as well.
In other words, aligning themselves with other professionals or
organizations that act to the detriment of those ethical standards is
strictly forbidden.
Why then, one must wonder, are there so many therapists that get client
referrals though the website that operates under the name
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM?
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM is on the surface a simple referral resource for
helping people find mental health services, and for connecting mental health
professionals to possible clients.
What is disturbing is that the site doubles as a tool for the political
indoctrination of prospective clients. They weave information on mental
health services with a pro-feminist and overtly anti-male agenda, and target
that message at people who are logically presumed to be at highly vulnerable
points in their lives.
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM quotes statistics on issues like rape, sexual abuse,
domestic violence and even alleged wage gap information. Almost all of it is
wildly inaccurate and misleading, much of it without the benefit of research
sources. Most of this "information" has been thoroughly debunked by sound
and unbiased research so its presence on the site can only be interpreted as
calculated to deceive.
For example, they state that half of all marriages experience domestic
violence, a complete falsehood. The Centers for Disease Control put the
percentage at less than one quarter, and many other valid studies point to
even less frequency.
The site erroneously claims throughout in the information pages that it is
almost exclusively women that are the victims of that violence and that the
small fraction of women who are violent only commit that violence in self
defense
Women who are victims of violence are a serious problem, but they won't be
helped with deceptive propaganda that is designed more to indoctrinate than
it is to help. And this is where ethical violations are quite clear.
ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM proffers a redundant message that demonizes men, and
paints women as victims in every way imaginable. And intertwined with their
entire body of false statistics and misleading statements are pitches for
feminism, dangling the philosophy like a carrot before clients with the
unmistakable implication that it is an integral part of the overall mental
health picture for women.
Think about what that means. People come to the website, usually in enough
emotional pain to make them vulnerable and impressionable, and rather than
offering an objective, truthful and beneficial doorway into improved living,
the authors of the site exploit that pain and vulnerability in order to
further their own political agenda.
What would you think of a psychotherapist that implies to their clients that
some of the solutions to their emotional difficulties are to be found in the
Republican Party? How about a solution that tells people that saving the
environment will also save their marriage?
That is precisely the approach taken by ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM
Political organizations and philosophies are not considered a valid form of
mental health treatment by caring, objective and competent professionals. In
fact, the truly professional and skilled in the field would never associate
themselves with such practices.
This insanity needs to end, and that starts with the professionals who list
their services in the ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM directory.
Following is a list of said clinicians (original article only) from the
state of California, with their names and contact information as listed in
the directory.
I will start with them, sending and email and a link to this article and an
explanation of why they should divest themselves from ALLABOUTCOUNSELING.COM
It is hard to know how many of them are aware of the breeches in ethics on
the site, but they will after being contacted.
Footnote: When the time has expired for the California listings, I will
move on to the other states and Europe on an accelerated schedule.
Here is the email sent to those listed on allaboutcounseling.com:
Greetings,
I found your listing and contact information at allaboutcounseling.com.
I am not writing because I am having problems, but because you might be in
the near future and I am looking for a way for you to avoid that.
I don't know if you have carefully reviewed the material presented at
allaboutcounseling.com, but it contains a good deal of disinformation and
other aspects that are of ethical concern to me, and should be to you.
I explain this more completely in an article I wrote, to which you will find
a link at the bottom of this message.
The main focus of that piece is that intertwining political indoctrination,
e.g. radical feminism, with promoting overall mental health is patently
unethical. And when you add to that the fact that much of the information
used is misrepresented or outright fraudulent, it becomes both deceptive and
abusive.
It has to stop.
Please keep in mind that I don't write this with the idea that you
personally are engaged in any such unethical behavior. I don't know
anything about you and would not proffer such maligning conjecture.
What I do know is that you are listed on that site, and by that fact your
involvement is the impetus for their actions, and now for mine. Since I
will be directing a substantial amount of energy at exposing that website
for what it is doing, you and your reputation are subject to being
collateral damage in the fallout.
Let me explain further.
Currently, the article below is published, with your name and practice
information on my website. That, in and of itself, is harmless to you. But
at the end of the 30 days, I am going to use my considerable reach on the
internet to distribute the complete article in a wide variety of places. If
you doubt my word when I say "considerable reach" just google my name. You
won't have to go through very many pages of results before it dawns on you
just how significant this action is.
In the end the article will be exposed to many thousands of people. But
that is still not your main concern.
The larger problem for you would come with search results.
Imagine that when people key in searches on counseling,
allaboutcounseling.com, client abuse, or even your name or practice name,
that the article mentioned pops up in the top tier of search results.
And I say all that with the understanding here that truly your biggest
problem is that you have your name tagged on to a website that spreads lies
and distortions while pretending to offer valid science.
As I said, I don't know anything about you, so I really have no desire to
cast a pallor over your professional reputation. But my work at exposing
the hateful practices at allaboutcounseling.com will be launched full force
regardless.
This would seem to me to leave you three options.
1. You can contact allaboutcounseling.com and advise them it is unethical
for you to be listed on a site that spreads falsehoods to people at
vulnerable points in their lives.
2. You can just have your listing there deleted.
3. You can ignore all of this and proceed at your own risk.
I think option number one is the best.
I am starting with California and this action will be expanded till I have
covered every region in the allaboutcounseling.com registry.
And regardless of the outcome, my readers will love me for it and it will
increase traffic to my site all the more.
I urge you to consider whether your relationship with that particular
referral resource is valuable enough to risk placing your practice in the
middle of this campaign.
Ultimately, I think the best option is for the owners of
allaboutcounseling.com to drop the sexist propaganda, present only valid
information and quit trying to manipulate people who are in emotional
turmoil. If they won't do that, I will gladly settle for making it foolish
for any credentialed professional to be associated with them
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