Should seminaries ask applicants if they’ve gone to therapy?
“Two and a half years ago, when I first saw this phenomenon, I wrote a very strong letter to the seminaries that asked about therapy and medication on their applications. Two seminaries did remove the question from their applications. The others kept it on there.
We don’t push therapy on children. We encourage it when it’s necessary, but how can we tell these girls that they won’t get into seminary because of it? The seminaries say that they don’t care about the answer — but then, why are they asking the question? No seminary is asking questions that don’t matter to them.
I work closely with Links, the organization founded by Mrs. Kohn to support children who’ve lost a parent, and often we recommend a girl work through this loss in therapy. Yet most of the time, if a girl writes that she’s in therapy on her application, the application will immediately be discarded.
If the seminary wants to ask about therapy or medication after they’ve accepted a girl, because they want to know how to best prepare for her, then it might be a valid question.
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