[ Contents | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: Jonathan Bashor
Date: 10/3/02
Time: 9:09:28 AM
Remote Name: 65.102.247.160
I think it is the client who gets to decide what is going too far. In general though, anything that causes the client significant distress. For example, I had a couple SLPs in my youth who really expected me to do desensitization exercises without any support from them. I wasn't ready to do it, so it was more like "shock" exercises, and I came away from it more sensitized. By the way, neither of the SLPs were PWS, so they didn't understand what they were asking me to do.
Johnson and Sheehan expected clients to do that stuff too. They may have thought it was no big deal, but I'll bet a few of their clients did.
I'm not arguing against desensitization exercises, only that it be done at a pace the client can manage. Without proper preparation, it becomes what psychologists would call "flooding".