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And in plenty of fields, people do actually have this option. Correcting society is an explicit goal of social work and psychology, both in research and practic
by candiodari 6y ago
And in plenty of fields, people do actually have this option. Correcting society is an explicit goal of social work and psychology, both in research and practice. From "youth work" (50%+ unwanted by both youth and parents, and when it comes to residential treatments 85%+ unwanted, and 12% residential treatment is convicted youth) to "social work" for adults (again, majority is unwanted)
And of course, unwanted means that for the "clients" there is at the very least a threat of violence against them (or their kids/family/...) in the majority (for kids VERY large majority) of cases.
In some countries, "the social sector" is the biggest public sector, in all countries it's very, very big. Including the US, but at least here it doesn't exceed education or the medical sector in size.
Of course, these don't let themselves be stopped by the longstanding research pointing out that without client's cooperation (and of course unwanted means no cooperation), there is little to no point to treatment, and very significant downsides. Which is why horror stories like this happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa_Pothoven#:~:text=3%20Publications-,Life%20and%20activism,and%20made%20her%20well%2Dknown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa_Pothoven#:~:text=3%20Publi....
Such horror stories are anecdotal evidence. The real proof comes from large scale statistical studies:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30180-4 https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30180-4
Or, for the youth case:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583 https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583