I've been thinking a lot about the line between sharing clinical vignettes to illustrate a point, versus posting details from sessions for content. I find the former genuinely helpful in the clinical literature I read and therefore would like to write that way, too; but I wouldn't want to veer into doing the latter because ick. But where exactly is the line? Maybe what is off-putting about that particular post was the disdainful tone about the session content, and how that would be hurtful to the client if they saw it? It has a bit of a mean girl vibe. No one wants to imagine their therapist having that reaction to their session (although I think that gallows humor and clinician's griping privately to each other in supervision about annoying things their clients do is a necessary release valve to avoid burnout, personally).
Totally! It feels mean. And we need spaces to gripe, but agreed that they need to stay private. The difference between sharing any aspect of clinical work for education/information sharing or as "content" for content's sake feels like kind of an unclear line, but I feel like I know it when I see it.
I've been thinking a lot about the line between sharing clinical vignettes to illustrate a point, versus posting details from sessions for content. I find the former genuinely helpful in the clinical literature I read and therefore would like to write that way, too; but I wouldn't want to veer into doing the latter because ick. But where exactly is the line? Maybe what is off-putting about that particular post was the disdainful tone about the session content, and how that would be hurtful to the client if they saw it? It has a bit of a mean girl vibe. No one wants to imagine their therapist having that reaction to their session (although I think that gallows humor and clinician's griping privately to each other in supervision about annoying things their clients do is a necessary release valve to avoid burnout, personally).
Totally! It feels mean. And we need spaces to gripe, but agreed that they need to stay private. The difference between sharing any aspect of clinical work for education/information sharing or as "content" for content's sake feels like kind of an unclear line, but I feel like I know it when I see it.