The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of L.G.B.T.Q. clients under the age of 18.
Needless to say, this will seriously scar a whole lot of kids whose homophobic parents force them through this
Well I ment have these higher regulations specifically for conversion therapy as a way to make it near impossible for anyone to do it.
I suggested that to get license for conversion therapy you must have supervised training by someone with a conversion therapy license. Of which this would be a closed system. As no one can have a license without someone else having it first to train them. Maybe that wasn’t clear in my proposal.
Conservatives push laws like this all the time that basically make it so no exceptions can meet the qualifications for the exceptions.
Why not do the same ?
And yeah there are great therapist with masters and terrible ones with PhDs. I only referred to statistics.
Statistically, PhD are more likely to use evidence based therapies like CBT and have better patient outcomes.
But CBT can be given by a master’s holder.
I’ve definitely met people with masters doing therapy who are much more informed and scientific minded than some PhDs Ive met.
It really depends on the individual and the university they attend and the focus of their curriculum.