Herein is the most sickening
page in ETM TRT’s one half gigabyte of literature.
And it will get worse before
it gets better. Profound regrets to new readers and
those of you who apply ETM
TRT to your patients, aspiring diligently and in
good faith to do so properly
and as authorized by the ETM Certifying Authority.
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Recall, Restore,
Revalidate The ETM Certifying Authority is notifying anyone trained by TECS and ELCCC of Georgia between January 1, 2005, and February 1, 2008, that their certifications may represent deficient, DANGEROUS if applied to patients, and wrongfully influenced* ETM TRT training. For review. As a response to training, application and
ethics complaints filed in 2007 with the ETM Certifying Authority regarding
the referenced programs, I, as that authority, evaluated them through
interview and written documentation, and continue to investigate the proposed
training shortfalls and apparent failures underpinning the complaints. To
date, the information indicates that substantial, unauthorized and
prospectively destructive changes had and have apparently been made by the
onsite trainer to the stipulated (by the ETM TRT Certifying Authority) ETM
training curriculum resulting in affected training sessions having likely fallen
below the ETM standard required for ETM TRT certification. Hence, I also have concluded that
applications of ETM TRT to end users, that is, patients, may be compromised. updated August 1, 2009 In 2009, I have learned that the church non profit clinic managed by the past trainer and which also hosts the training sessions has adapted employee (therapist and layman) training and counseling policies and procedures related to ETM TRT administration to patients that function antithetically and practically differently from the rules that must be followed for compliance with ETM Certification. Moreover, the clinic’s management, who also was an ETM TRT trainer until February 28, 2008, had created an independent Certification Program that purports to extend ETM Certification by offering additional categories of ETM TRT recognition, skill and authority in discordance with the ETM Certifying Authority. Moreover, the clinic trains laymen, people who may not only be unlicensed by the state governing authority for mental health care standards compliance, but some of whom who also are said to only have high school diplomas for academic credentials. The academic standard for professional counseling today supports at least a graduate or masters degree. TRT is a serious and profound therapy which
requires facilitation by an individual who has the capacities to recognize
most mental health issues or disorders should any present comorbid while
applying TRT. The ETM Training program is not designed nor does it train laymen
in the general counseling theories and extensive mental health disorders.
Without those noted skills available to an individual, ETM TRT cannot be
expected to deliver proper, ethical and competent care. And, the patient can
even be exposed to harm. Any claim, as I understand is being made by the
facility that has served as host to these ETM Trainings in question, that
such not completely trained people in
general counseling principles and methods can interact with a Certified ETM
Counselor through out of session (the supervising counselor does NOT co
facilitate in the sessions) discussion and thus raise that individual’s
academic and other professional training deficits so that a patient may be
treated at ETM TRT’s full or true capacities for care, or to keep through non
co-facilitation supervision methods the patient from experiencing substantial
discomfort or even harm, has no merit in the ETM TRT system of mental health
care. Please contact the ETM Certifying Authority to see if this training deficit pertains to your certification. If it does, you may take a one day (from your home or office via conferencing with your computer) ETM training error correcting class. It is provided to you at no charge or additional expense. If by some circumstance, you are working for an organization as a Certified or Associate ETM TRT, as has now been reported to me as occurring in the referenced facility, and you don’t have a formal counseling background and credentials from your state authority, then you must cease providing ETM TRT by yourself, that is, without a constantly co-facilitating TRT counselor who has all the credentials required by your state governing authority which training is assumed in the TRT Training program. Regardless of whether an employer tells you that ETM TRT certification authorizes you to provide such care legally, it does not! If this information pertains to you, stop doing illegal TRT facilitation as soon as you read this message |
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