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Sunday Star Times
March 24, 2002
Abuse Humbug
letter to the Editor
by Gordon Waugh, Auckland
Fred Seymour [refer
"ACC : Sex abuse cause of ills" by Donna Chisholm, Sunday 17 March
2002] is plainly wrong when he says it was "plainly silly" of
author Lynley Hood to suggest ACC counselling could produce recovered abuse
memories because "you can't get ACC counselling until someone else has
agreed the person qualifies to see a counsellor."
ACC's website [ www.acc.org.nz/ ].
defines the steps for making a sexual abuse claim.
1. Complete the ACC 45 claim form and send it to them.
This can be done by the claimant,
or with the help of a counsellor.
2. Choose the counsellor you want.
3. Visit the counsellor and get your cover report done.
A fourth should have been added - queue here to get your money.
The website says "There are many different counselling styles. Most
counsellors will just talk with you, but some also use acting, writing or
art. Others may have a spiritual or cultural basis...." Paid by the taxpayer, of course !
Seymour is also
wrong when he reckons ACC's new counselling guidelines "are to be used
only in the case of patients already diagnosed with problems arising from
sexual abuse and who have been referred to ACC counsellors."
Kim McGregor's 43-page guideline [ACC counselling guidelines "Therapy
Guidelines : Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse"] is unmitigated
humbug, unscientific nonsense and appalling misinformation, clearly designed
to help counsellors find abuse histories in the absence of credible evidence.
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