Posted on 11/30/2022 4:07:55 AM PST by 11th_VA
Meet Leslie Elliott, who’s studying to get a degree in mental health counseling at Antioch University in Seattle, part of the Antioch University system that includes the famous Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, famous for its radicalism. Apparently the Seattle school is also pretty woke, as you can judge from Elliott’s eight-minute video below, where she describes the horrific ideological “training” that passes for training in mental health therapy at Antioch. Elliott’s still a student, and near graduation, but according to the video and an article at wng.org (excerpted below), she might not finish because she won’t sign an ideological pledge about social justice. Elliott also works at a counseling service as a Holistic Wellness Coach and Consultant. She adds that she’s a “political liberal,” and I don’t doubt it. Someone who wants to go into non-M.D. psychotherapy is someone who wants to help people, not make money.
An excerpt from wng.org:
Leslie Elliott only has a few more courses to take in the graduate clinical mental health counseling program at Antioch University in Seattle before she can become a licensed clinical counselor. Yet she does not see how she can continue in the program because it is requiring her to endorse a “civility pledge” which violates her conscience. She is on a leave of absence to explore her administrative and legal options.
The pledge, which Elliott says is now included in most syllabuses, reflects the social justice mission of Antioch. It states: “I acknowledge that racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism, ageism, nativism, and other forms of interpersonal and institutionalized forms of oppression exist. I will do my best to better understand my own privileged and marginalized identities and the power that these afford me.” Antioch added the statement starting in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.
For Elliott, the offense came when the first assignment in one of her required courses was to affirm the pledge by rewriting it in her own words and stating her agreement. “That really felt like a purity test to me,” she said. “I felt compelled to confess to this worldview that sees myself as an intersectional group of identities that have privilege and marginalization attached to them, and I don’t agree with this framework. It feels like a theology, and it’s not my theology.”
A political liberal, Elliott knew social justice was a core tenet driving the ethical standards of the program when she entered it. But she soon learned that her idea of social justice was very different from that of her professors and administrators. To Elliott, social justice meant striving to provide access and opportunity and eliminating exploitation and unfairness when possible. “It seemed like a beautiful ideal you would find in most world religions and most positive philosophies,” she said.
But she found the teachings at Antioch opposed her beautiful ideal. Her professors and administrators viewed social justice as a critical lens through which Western society must be viewed to deconstruct cultural norms and values rooted in white supremacy, racism, and oppression of marginalized people. She believes this conceptualization of social justice is socially destructive and an anti-resilience philosophy. The video below recounts a training designed to turn all mental-health counselors into social-justice advocates who turn all interactions involving therapy into issues about race. ..
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striving to provide access and opportunity and eliminating exploitation and unfairness when possible
Yeah, nothing real wrong with that when you find it.
Guess she has to decide whats more important: her degree to pursue her vision more broadly or not having a degree and schlepping tables.
Its tough: Antioch is not going to budge, you can be sure. So I dunno.
Progressives wanted to take power away from cops because 'cops stand in the way of elites doing whatever the hell they want'. But for people living in the real black community, cops protect them from criminals who want to rob them, rape them and hurt their children.
Folks who live in the black community face different problems than those of white brats in gated communities - - that includes most of the whites at Antioch...
Progressives wanted to take power away from cops because 'cops stand in the way of elites doing whatever the hell they want'. But for people living in the real black community, cops protect them from criminals who want to rob them, rape them and hurt their children.
Folks who live in the black community face different problems than those of white brats in gated communities - - something progressives missed. Missed because their true goal is using the black community to increase their own power.
Lots of people making money on this despicable ideology, selling BS degrees in BS.
But I was amazed at how flaky the whole field is. What's a disorder today becomes the new normal tomorrow. No absolutes. Nothing concrete.
I concluded it's a useless field and if someone truly has a mental illness, they're as likely to cope on their own as to go to one of those quacks.
Look at the streets of san fran, denver, la, austin, portland, seattle.......
Apparently psychotherapy has nothing to offer anyone. Because the insane are living in boxes on the street.
The teachings and teachers in the schools and universities today are blind to their own prejudices. They can’t see where their views are way off the mark. I think most of these people go along with the “program” because they feel if they don’t, they will be cancelled. The problem is then they start to believe in what they are teaching and saying. They are brainwashing themselves.
But of course it was there from the beginning. Lots of commies in Sigmund Freud’s circle way back when.
Don’t care what happens to the “brave” liberal who should realize her entire education is worthless.
Read “Libido Domanandi” by E. Michael Jones; the section on Freud is very eye-opening.
She should finish at a different school that does not have a loyalty oath. Having anything to do with a school like Antioch was a mistake.
Good thought.
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