'Will you forgive me?'
So annoying! I wanted to slap that lady in the face everytime she said that. No wonder Claire hated her.
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However I wonder if all that came from the suicide note which said 'forgive me'
shareIt's therapy. She wanted them to make an effort to forgive in terms of their grievances (against Nina).
"Did you make coffee? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
My problem with the therapist is that at the beginning she said that as people felt lead they could ask "Nina" questions or say how they felt about her suicide and then pretty much forced Claire to say something by calling her out.
shareIt irritated me too that she said it was an opportunity for everyone to get closure by saying what they wished they could say to Nina and ask "Nina" questions etc, implying that they could say whatever was on their minds...but the very first person who said anything at all, she immediately responded with "will you forgive me?" That would pretty much shut anyone down if it is the response to their first question/comment. The therapist needed to let everyone say what they needed to say...and once it had run its course, THEN start saying "will you forgive me?" Her timing was terrible, so that exercise would have been useless. It would have just p*ssed everyone off.
shareYep, just another example of a completely useless, inappropriate, unprofessional counselor in a movie. No one ever gets counselors right. This kind of exercise is not appropriate for a group setting. It's also not appropriate for her to presume to speak as or for someone else. Also not okay to call claire out and force her to speak if she didn't want to. Also not appropriate to leave her a voicemail telling her she can't come back to group and find somewhere else. A professional would have a face to face meeting with her and discuss the problems she saw with the group as a method of treatment for her and help her find other options. I could buy all of that if it was a volunteer peer support group but that didn't seem to be the case.
Also, a professional would never, under any circumstances, give confidential information about a client. Particularly in that situation it could have led to a very dangerous situation. She knows Clair is angry, using drugs more than she should, and probably not thinking clearly. Giving her that address was not only a violation of confidentiality, it was dangerous. Doesn't matter if she threatened legal action, you would never ever do that. I am a social worker. If I did something like that, I would likely lose my job and my registration - no matter what the reason.