by Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald on June 18, 2012
This post appeared as an article in the Sunday Star Times on Sunday the 17th of June, 2012: click here for the original
A survey around sensitive claims and the treatment of sexual abuse victims has raised more questions about the Accident Compensation Corporation…(Click here for the rest of this blog post)
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by Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald on May 8, 2012
“I was always taught not to raise the topics of politics, sex or money unless you wanted to start an argument. Todays policy announcement about free long term contraceptives for beneficiaries from National raises all three.
But why are people so concerned? John Key seems keen to reassure us it is all optional:
“Mr Key said he did not believe Work and Income case managers would put undue pressure on beneficiaries to take up the long-term contraceptive options, saying they would simply be made aware of the options they had.” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10804304
I think the question we need to ask is what can happen when people who have been disempowered, victimized by trauma, and suffering mental health difficulties engage with these policies in the real world?..” (Click here for the rest of this blog post)
from Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald on April 15, 2012. This article appeared on the Stuff website on Sunday the 15th, 2012.
A senior medical officer in ACC’s sensitive claims unit has made legal threats to a blogger who posted information about his employment history, in the wake of a mass privacy breach.
Peter Dodwell, the branch medical advisor of the unit that deals with rape and abuse victims, was fired from his previous job in Australia over a privacy issue.
Both Dodwell and ACC’s senior medical advisor, Peter Jansen, have threatened legal action against blogger Kyle Macdonald, a psychotherapist who regularly speaks out against the corporation… (Click here for the rest of this blogpost)
by Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald on March 22, 2012
When all this ACC carry on about Sensitive Claims kicked off in 2009, and I started this blog, I had no idea that three years later I’d still be banging on about the problems and difficulties claimants and professionals encounter.
I’ve become one of those people who have become embattled with ACC, albeit for a much different reason and with none of the the consequences experienced by many claimants.
Stories that have begun to break about Bronwyn Pullar that suggest she has been fighting for ten years. There are also many, many others who don’t have such powerful friends.
And this reaction to the ACC has been of interest to me as a psychotherapist, and I believe in many ways unique to the ACC. So what is it about ACC that means that people fight and keep fighting with them?…(Click here for the rest of this blog post.)
