Comments on: Human Rights Watch launch report on Abortion and Ireland http://www.mamanpoulet.com/human-rights-watch-launch-report-on-abortion-and-ireland/ Clucking away crookedly through media, politics and life. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:33:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Maman Poulet » What you didn’t see on RTE http://www.mamanpoulet.com/human-rights-watch-launch-report-on-abortion-and-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-141890 Maman Poulet » What you didn’t see on RTE Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:30:59 +0000 http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=2936#comment-141890 [...] by Maman Poulet on 02 Feb 2010 at 06:29 am | Tagged as: Abortion The report released last week by Human Rights Watch on Abortion and Ireland was not covered on RTE news. I still have not figured out why programmes and editors ignored it. [...] [...] by Maman Poulet on 02 Feb 2010 at 06:29 am | Tagged as: Abortion The report released last week by Human Rights Watch on Abortion and Ireland was not covered on RTE news. I still have not figured out why programmes and editors ignored it. [...]

]]> By: Laura http://www.mamanpoulet.com/human-rights-watch-launch-report-on-abortion-and-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-140819 Laura Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:19:09 +0000 http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=2936#comment-140819 To be honest I think this is part of a bigger issue of the total non-regulation of counselling and help services in Ireland. I can go out tomorrow and put a sign on my door, call myself a "life coach" or something equally funky and charge gullible clients what I like. It extends beyond pregnancy counselling to debt advice, various forms of therapy, diet centres and life coaches, some of the above most definitely shamelessly exploit and/or manipulate clients or provide misleading information that could be harmful. In the state of California you need 5000 supervised hours of experience in order to qualify as a family and marriage therapist. Here you can print off business cards calling yourself a "Consultant in XXXXX issues" and nobody can stop you. In fact there was one person barred from Outhouse a year or two ago for doing just that. If there was proper regulation for counselling centres and services in general and practitioners in particular, it would help people to assess if the person they are going to is a genuine fully trained professional or an exploiting charlatan with an agenda all of their own. To be honest I think this is part of a bigger issue of the total non-regulation of counselling and help services in Ireland. I can go out tomorrow and put a sign on my door, call myself a “life coach” or something equally funky and charge gullible clients what I like. It extends beyond pregnancy counselling to debt advice, various forms of therapy, diet centres and life coaches, some of the above most definitely shamelessly exploit and/or manipulate clients or provide misleading information that could be harmful.

In the state of California you need 5000 supervised hours of experience in order to qualify as a family and marriage therapist. Here you can print off business cards calling yourself a “Consultant in XXXXX issues” and nobody can stop you. In fact there was one person barred from Outhouse a year or two ago for doing just that. If there was proper regulation for counselling centres and services in general and practitioners in particular, it would help people to assess if the person they are going to is a genuine fully trained professional or an exploiting charlatan with an agenda all of their own.

]]> By: New HRW report on Abortion « Human Rights in Ireland http://www.mamanpoulet.com/human-rights-watch-launch-report-on-abortion-and-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-140777 New HRW report on Abortion « Human Rights in Ireland Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:54:31 +0000 http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=2936#comment-140777 [...] in Ireland. The full report is here and the executive summary is here. Maman Poulet blogs about it here. The report is very accessible and will be a really important resource for the [...] [...] in Ireland. The full report is here and the executive summary is here. Maman Poulet blogs about it here. The report is very accessible and will be a really important resource for the [...]

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