The University of Texas at Austin

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The University of Texas at Austin Reviews

ASDA November 19, 2010
Counseling and Mental Health Center - Counseling Malpractice, illegal discrimination, violation of privacy, and mobbing
The intent of this if for educational and informative purposes. It is to help the public protect itself against deranged and incompetent professionals located in Austin, Texas. This report is a legitimate expression of my first amendment right. And it is only fair that the public is informed about the corruption that is rampant in the Counseling and Mental Health Center at UT Austin located in Austin, Texas. Dr. Marla Craig and Dr. Diana Damer are very passive-aggressive and incompetent feminist supervisors. I caught Dr. Craig in several lies and when she was confronted she had no remorse or care. Keith Arrington and Allen Lambert are social workers that work there at UT-Austin and they have extremely poor social and professional skills. I experienced mobbing and gender discrimination from them. In my experience they did not use psychological theories, activities, or methods to help me. Because of my gender I was not taken seriously. I was not respected. I was talked down to in an abusive tone of voice. I was not given adequate services. I was treated in a hostile manner. I was also ignored and argued with when I gave them feedback. I also believe that my ethnic minority status played a part in the hostile treatment. I believe that I was effectively mobbed out of the university by Dr. Diana Damer, Keith Arrington, Allen Lambert, and Dr. Marla Craig:

Mobbing: It creates “Prejudice,
withholds information in order for you not to complete your job, isolates you physically and
socially, holds meetings about your work without your presence, changes rules
frequently, portrays the victimized person as being at fault, engineered to
discredit, confuse, intimidate, and force the person into submission, and committed
with the intent to force the person out.” (Davenport, Schwartz, and Elliott. 1999,
41-44).

I think it is fair to explicate with details on how I felt discriminated against and received a lack of due care as a minority and client during my counseling sessions. Keith Arrington and Dr. Diana Damer claimed to practice cognitive therapy. But when I went to their sessions. They showed up late without excuses or apologies. They had a disgruntled, arrogant, selfish, moody, and argumentative attitude. I found their personalities to be very rude and odd. They asked questions in a cutting and interrogative manner. They asked questions that did not have anything to do with my specific concerns. They seemed to be very paranoid and they didn't express any forms of empathy, sympathy, care, interest, or concern. They could not agree to disagree. They had no concern for my perceptions, feelings, or mood either. They came across as very incompetent, sadistic, and narcissistic. They also gave my confidential information to officials at the university of Texas at Austin. My private information was later used against me in harassment campaigns by Martha Compton, Michael Mackert, and Bruce Jeffers. They used snippets of my personal information in a sarcastic, cutting, and flippant manner to cause oppression and intimidation. They thought I wasn't going to figure out that my information was given to them.

The last counselor I saw was social worker Allen Lambert. He does not and will not help you in regards to discrimination issues or any other cultural concerns. He argues and gets very offended and throws a fit like a little girl when you do not agree with him on every single issue. He appears to have autism and bipolar. He was overly critical. He was accusatory. He had an inability to empathize and tell the truth. I could tell that Allen Lambert was lying to me when I had asked him questions. He played dumb in my sessions when I made comments about his impaired and incompetent behavior. He showed no remorse or care when I confronted him about his childish, corrupt, and incompetent behaviors. He was very defensive, agitated, and flippant. He used obfuscation to confuse me. And he withheld important information in regards to filing discrimination complaints. Allen Lambert also showed up late to my sessions. He was verbally abusive because he shouted at me that I should feel startled by him. And he went on and on harassing me with questions in my session instead of showing empathy, and concern. He did not use encouragement or psychological theories or methods to help me in any way. He did try to further group-think by harassing me into a group counseling session with him. I refused to do so. And he threw a tantrum like an angry little girl when I refused to follow through with his stupid demands.

Aaron Beck invented cognitive therapy. And as a client it is important to know and understand what professional counseling should look like. I did not receive any cognitive therapy. A Beck Anxiety Inventory was not completed. A Beck Depression Inventory was not completed. And Dr. Diana Damer and Keith Arrington did not follow cognitive therapy protocol. The proper cognitive therapy session structure
offers this guideline: “Therapist worked with patient to set an appropriate
agenda with target problems, suitable for the available time. Established
priorities and then followed agenda. Therapist was especially adept at
eliciting and responding to verbal and non-verbal feedback throughout the
session (e.g., elicited reactions to session, regularly checked for
understanding, helped summarize main points at end of session. Therapist seemed
to understand the patient’s “internal reality” thoroughly and was adept at
communicating this understanding through appropriate verbal and non-verbal responses
to the patient (e.g., the tone of the therapist’s response conveyed a sympathetic
understanding of the patient’s “message”). Excellent listening and empathic
skills. Therapist displayed optimal levels of warmth, concern, confidence,
genuineness, and professionalism, appropriate for this particular patient in
this session. Collaboration seemed excellent; therapist encouraged patient as
much as possible to take an active role during the session (e.g., by offering
choices) so they could function as a “team”. Therapist was
especially adept at using guided discovery during the session to explore
problems and help patient draw his/her own
conclusions. Achieved an excellent balance between skillful questioning and
other modes of intervention. Therapist very skillfully focused on key thoughts,
assumptions, behaviors, etc. that were most relevant to the problem area and
offered considerable promise for progress. Therapist followed a consistent
strategy for change that seemed very promising and incorporated the most
appropriate cognitive-behavioral techniques. Therapist very skillfully and
resourcefully employed cognitive-behavioral techniques. Therapist reviewed
previous homework and carefully assigned homework drawn from cognitive therapy
for the coming week. Assignment seemed “custom tailored” to help patient
incorporate new perspectives, test hypotheses, experiment with new
behaviors discussed during session, etc.” (Beck and Young, 1980)

I saw Keith first, he failed to provide due
care. I do not consider arguing and showing up late to sessions without
explications due care. I benchmarked the late behavior on the times that
the other therapists approached their clients for session. The other
therapists were regularly on or near on time. Keith was usually more than 10
minutes late but without any reasonable explications. During one session
a co-worker of his burst into my counseling session and engaged in a
conversation with Keith. Keith had a nonchalant and apathetic attitude
about the violation of privacy that occurred. Keith is a social worker hired by
the university and one of his specialties is GLBTQ issues. I felt that my
ideas and area of concerns were not respected during my sessions. When he
asked me questions he would intentionally write down false information.
Such as "So tell me about your parents?" I go on to describe
that I have a pretty good relationship with my parents. Then he writes
down and talks out loud in a snarky manner "So you've never really known
your dad". Who knows what other incorrect information he wrote
down. Throughout my sessions he shouted at me and used snarky comments that were humiliating to me. He also refused to validate my feelings and experiences. He remained apathetic and agitated throughout my sessions. He showed absolutely no empathy. And became angry and agitated when I talked about concerns relating to discrimination, ethnic minorities, gender, culture, and anxiety.

On a very important side note when I brought up legitimate minority concerns
and discrimination concerns in a peaceful manner I was shouted down, argued
with, ignored, given the cold shoulder, or the topic of conversation was
immediately altered by both Dr. Damer and Keith Arrington; however, Dr. Damer
was more adamant about me joining a group, her behaviors bordered on coercion
as she persisted angrily. I did not think it was a suitable idea for me.
She wanted me to join a group so I could know "reality". She
also stated "reality" in a very cutting and contemptuous tone and she
gave me the evil eye to make me feel inferior and scared of her. She also wrote down information in an angry matter. She appeared very paranoid in my session. It seemed that she had bipolar and autism. Because her mood fluctuated from apathy to anger. And she showed absolutely no compassion, empathy, validation of feelings, or concern. She also was very agitated when I brought up discrimination issues. And issues that are in concern with my gender.

Dr. Damer and Keith failed to provide due care. It's my sense that they
both were trying to discredit me in a team effort by ignoring all of my
legitimate concerns and by asking me loaded questions that belittled and
humiliated me and that never addressed any of my personal concerns. Keep
in mind that some of the questions were routine; however, Dr. Damer's contemptuous
tone of voice and look of utter disgust on her face made me feel disgusted with
her incompetence. I am also suspicious of the information she wrote down about
me. Her disgruntled body language sent
off very distressing alarms and red flags. Dr. Damer also refused to
provide rationales on how her perfectionism model would resolve my anxiety
concerns as well as my ethnic and sexual minority concerns. I do not
believe I have perfectionism and I also do not see how her perfectionism model
could help most clients. It wasn't helpful for me. That is her
fault for not providing an explication, history of results, nor rationales. Remember results can always be manipulated, so they aren't always the best method to judge proficiency. If you see a current photo of Dr. Damer on her professional website you will realize she has the ability to smile and appear pleasant; however, a photo is simply superficial. Stalin and Pol Pot were often seen smiling. Keeping up appearances is very important for fascists.

Mobbing can be argued as
conspiracy against rights which is a 2007 Federal law.

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