{"id":660,"date":"2012-10-08T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:57:28","slug":"counselors-gotta-counsel-but-about-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Counselors gotta counsel \u2013 but about what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cEven those (ritual-abuse day-care cases) that resulted in acquittals&#8230; reflect hundreds of children and their family members referred to counseling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMany families were limited to a handful of approved counselors, who also helped police and prosecutors by eliciting testimony from the children. One must wonder what these counselors counsel these children about, particularly in cases in which allegations were later proved to have come from them rather than from the children \u2013 and considering that the children began showing symptoms of abuse only after disclosing \u2013 the reverse of abused children&#8217;s usual responses to counseling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cAssessing the Costs of False Allegations of Child Abuse: A Prescriptive&#8221;\u00a0by Susan Kiss Sarnoff (IPT Journal, 1997)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">What a calamitous exploitation of the children \u2013 but what a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=636\">canny career move for the therapists<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 8, 2012 \u201cEven those (ritual-abuse day-care cases) that resulted in acquittals&#8230; reflect hundreds of children and their family members referred to counseling. \u201cMany families were limited to a handful of approved counselors, who also helped police and prosecutors by eliciting testimony from the children. One must wonder what these counselors counsel these children about, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}