- An assignment called a "learning experience" is given to clients who break rules. Two clients were close to being expelled by the Residential Director. after another client made a complaint against the two, I gave each of them a "learning experience" assignment.
- These two clients and I were having a talk, just outside the conference room. The Director was relaxing inside (here). The conversation included profanity. The Director, sitting in the conference room, heard the foul language and decided to show me a common approach used with 'antisocial' clients. "The Three C's of Antisocial Personality Disorder".
- The Director seemed not to know what he was talking about, so I passed on the conversation.
- These particular clients were doing very poorly with the Director, and were about to be expelled. [Expelling client "Zack" required abundant extra paperwork, which the Residential Director had been creating.]
- The director's "Three c's" were corral, contain and consequence.
Click here - The usual Three C's are corral, confront and consequences.
- The "Three C's", even when communicated accurately, is not considered especially effective.
After one of the two clients left Clitheroe in a rush, the director waved a paper.
He said it was a complaint from that client, about the use of profanity by me.
He said it was a complaint from that client, about the use of profanity by me.
- Both of the clients above have spent a lot of time in jails and alleys.They both curse harshly and constantly.
- They both were very near expulsion, and had ample motive to seek "leverage", (if the complaint were actually made).
- Amazingly, a profanity complaint from the other of the two clients also appeared... after the client left treatment.
(note: On Sept. 14 2007 I asked the director if he could produce the actual complaint made by the client. Any complaint like that against a staff member would involve the client signing a statement.
Now it became a verbal complaint(Click here).
Now it became a verbal complaint(Click here).
- The client had been making comments about "snitches", and I referred to him conversationally as "a f...g moron". The director apparently altered the topic to make the complaint credible. "Moron" became "idiot" probably just because the Director did not remember the exact phrase. The director was within earshot (in the conference room) when the conversation occurred.
- The director and I talked casually about the clients and the conversation minutes after it ended. It's not clear what "didn't come fully to light" until after the client fled.
- Like several other staff members, I used profanity regularly. It's odd that the only two times clients (supposedly) complained were times the Director was within earshot, and... the clients who complained cursed far more than any staff, and... the complaints did not surface until the clients were gone.
- Additionally, my profanity never crossed a certain line. There was one supervisor who used profanity that even I found offensive.
The actual Warning Notice for the Feb 25 event "came fully to light" on April 4.
- The director decided I had counter-transference issues with "young criminals". more