“Girls who are mature, honest, and courageous enough to be in therapy can often be great assets to their seminaries”
As a therapy referrals coordinator and/or mechaneches in several seminaries, your article titled “Just Answer No” drew my attention. I agree that there is an issue here, but the article makes certain assumptions about the seminary world I wish to shed light on.
The reason this question is being asked on seminary application forms is to enable the seminaries to be most effective in our students’ chinuch. A student who needs therapeutic intervention will most likely struggle throughout her seminary year if her issues are shoved under the rug.
Seminary advisors and principals instantly lose our trust when we have to “spend half the year trying to crack the code of what this student needs to thrive.” If they want to earn and maintain our trust, they would be well advised to be honest.
I can understand the writer’s wish that seminaries clarify that they are not looking to weed out students who are in therapy. My suggestion to seminary advisors is that they discourage their students from lying. In doing so, they will be giving them the clearest message that seminaries are asking this so that they can offer students optimal help. Girls who are mature, honest, and courageous enough to be in therapy can often be great assets to their seminaries.
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