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Moving up the Mental Health Hub
thushan:
King - Nina and I were discussing this the other day; we're thinking about either 1) getting professionals to watch the hub or 2) renaming it.
slothpomba:
--- Quote from: TRex on February 08, 2013, 07:40:25 pm ---King - Nina and I were discussing this the other day; we're thinking about either 1) getting professionals to watch the hub or 2) renaming it.
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Seems like it might be a bit of a hard slog though. I mean you need to essentially find someone willing to do it for free (doubt it'll be an individual, if it is, i'm no lawyer but then there might be liability issues) or a person (people) from an organisation. As far as i know though, a lot of public services are already stretched pretty thin and stuff. It'll be pretty hard to convince them to divert man power from their own projects to one of ours. It would be a decent thing if we could get that but a lot of schools already have psychologists and there already exists many services for this exact purpose (external to this site, headspace, etc) that we can refer people to.
I think if we do get someone, to offer any kind of actual long term help to certain individuals would be a huge undertaking as well and they'd probably want to establish a face to face clinical relationship. It looks like we've come full circle again to something that can easily be achieved outside of AN.
Sorry if it comes off a big negative but i dont see much reason for diverting resources away from external organisations to our site when we can just refer people to them. Unless theres some extra benefit i'm missing of having it happen here and not referring them on.
thushan:
--- Quote from: kingpomba on February 08, 2013, 07:54:37 pm ---Seems like it might be a bit of a hard slog though. I mean you need to essentially find someone willing to do it for free (doubt it'll be an individual, if it is, i'm no lawyer but then there might be liability issues) or a person (people) from an organisation. As far as i know though, a lot of public services are already stretched pretty thin and stuff. It'll be pretty hard to convince them to divert man power from their own projects to one of ours. It would be a decent thing if we could get that but a lot of schools already have psychologists and there already exists many services for this exact purpose (external to this site, headspace, etc) that we can refer people to.
I think if we do get someone, to offer any kind of actual long term help to certain individuals would be a huge undertaking as well and they'd probably want to establish a face to face clinical relationship. It looks like we've come full circle again to something that can easily be achieved outside of AN.
Sorry if it comes off a big negative but i dont see much reason for diverting resources away from external organisations to our site when we can just refer people to them. Unless theres some extra benefit i'm missing of having it happen here and not referring them on.
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We are not psychologists and don't give mental health advice, nor do we pretend to be. We are merely a support network...much like the following:
https://blueboard.anu.edu.au/
We have a similar role to this forum (with the possible difference that ANU has much better access to lawyers).
Plus...what of those people who have no support nor any means to access professional help (like "Sad and Depressed")? Our role is not "health care professional," it is merely "carer" for these people. We are simply friends, not professionals. Professionals can't be around all the time...our role is to give people who are going through the doldrums one thing - love. That's one thing professionals cannot give.
Mr Keshy:
Thanks Nina :) Did not know that!
I think the main argument here is that no one can control what anyone says, and in this particular scenario, it has the potential to cause real harm.
However, I do believe that the difference between people here and professions is pretty much what Thush said. We shouldn't be assessing their situation, rather support them and care for them :)
Russ:
The problem is that the delineation between "help and support" and "advice" is basically non existent, especially when a) it's anonymous on the internet and b) lawyers
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