[esnr] Re: SAN
- From: Nelly <wayambe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: esnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:29:21 -0700 (PDT)
"Should people with no training in the psychiatric or mental health
field be able to provide Neurofeedback to people with Psychotic illness?"
This is a very important and yet sensitive question. But before i add my views
on this i would like to state that, any tool can be an instrument of good or
harm depending on how it is used.
With this i think it is really the societies prerogative to make sure
proffessional standards and behaviour are adhered to and people knows the
indepth of what they working with i.e mental health issues,psychiatric
conditions,neurological issues......
My view is that people can only know about this if they have done proper and
acceptable studies for a reasonable time. My own experience is that the concept
of these conditions is not easy to grasp as A.B.C. as there are too many
factors involved,the uniqueness of individuals and the plasticity of the brain
is just not that simple for a lay man. From my own experience,i was a teacher
in a special school for 6 years and have done psychology during my training but
i had to leave education and continue with psychology and the only experience i
can share here is that it is not as it looks from a close distance you need to
be with it to understand it. Having said this i support most of the members
ideas of reserving Neurofeedback for relevant proffessionals and only allow
proffessionals from mental health,psychiatric,psychologists etc to practice it.
This is if we want to keep neurofeedback alive otherwise it will loose it's
weight.
Aina
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