Call For Ideas: Fanish PA Shrink looking to Grow.
POSTED BY: Noocyte
UPDATED: Thursday, March 2, 2006 03:49
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Is a lowly MSW with her BA in Psych allowed to be present here? 
As a social worker, I do get to work with many marginalized youth (and their families!), and I understand where you are trying to head with your practice. Obviously there are many subcultures of adolescents today who could benefit from your practice. I am glad you are wanting to help them.
We both know that you are not suggesting that fandom in and of itself is a disorder that needs to be "cured," but I think the reactions you've gotten even on this very short thread will be typical of the reactions one would see out in the real world: regardless of whether you think it's a disorder, the general public is going to perceive it as such when your practice is geared toward that specific niche.
How to get over this hump? I'm not quite sure, but I'd like to reiterate what someone said above: I think it would be beneficial if you published some research about this genre. Yes, I know publishing sucks, but you yourself said that it was difficult to find any information in this field, so why not be the pioneer? Without something like research to fall back upon, I'm afraid people will look at your idea as somewhat flaky, even if it's a good idea.
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