Re: Alcoholism
- Subject: Re: Alcoholism
- From: Patrick Farrell Placement Officer <pfarrell@jones.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:16:45 -500
- 18: 17:59 -0400 (EDT)
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- Organization: jones college
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- Reply-to: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@jones.edu>
Rene wrote:
> I gave training to therapists at alcohol & drugsclinics. Many of them seemed
to
> suffer from burn-out symptoms.
<snip>
> first impression: Who are the patients and who are the therapists? I couldn't
> distinguish on a psychological level. Your experiences?
I concur.
I was working to become an Alcohol Counselor a few years ago. I went
thru the application process and get to the final interview. I had
all the right answers and the interviewer was impressed. Then at the
end, he laid his pen down and sat back in his chair and looked at me
for a long moment and said, "Pat, I have one question and you don't
even need to answer it to me. But, you do need to look at the
answer you come up with."
The question: Why would you want to take all these peoples' problems
home with you?
My answer was, "I don't." So, I didn't pursue the matter any
further.
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