Can they sue for something like that? Is that a breach of a patient confidentiality?

Probably one of the most fucked up things you could do as a mental health professional 

That psychologist shouldn’t have a license

Unethical bastards.

The tone of this article undersells just how serious of a violation this is

This is like when Betty Draper finds out Don’s been talking to her psychiatrist

Really though, that person should not have a license anymore and surely there must be trustworthy practitioners for something with extra sensitivity.

“Anything but a slam dunk” in a discussion about breached trust in patient confidentiality is crazy.

Safe to say, Blake was done with sports psychologists right then and there … but he clearly didn’t need one … because the Hall of Famer’s career exploded to new heights after the sit down

Incredibly awful phrase, therapy is useful in good and bad times, don’t stigmatize

Wtf

Aside from the completely fucked thing the therapist did. How do you trust your coach after this? I doubt the therapist did that unprompted.

Don’t get one paid for by the team, at the very least

A Benny blanco and lil dicky podcast sounds like a nightmare

People in here were saying Chet and Fox should see sports psychologists after their playoff losses. Would be good for them. But this makes it look sketchy af

It would be interesting to know more about how they consent and if teams have players and psychologist give ROI to the organization. Probably not super ethical regardless, but perhaps something that could have been informed ahead of time

I’m sorry, the hall of famer?

I mean is anyone actually surprised. Ik this is Reddit and therapy is viewed as some sort of holy elixir, but ya no shit therapists do this lol. As a barber, I’ve had therapists talk freely about things their clients said. And I only cut their hair. Can only imagine what they tell their friends/family/wife/husband. L  Had a literal psychiatrist at a major American Medical Center tell me “I’m pretty sure my most annoying client x (insert first name) is lying about y (insert fucked up experience). I wish I could just diagnose her with DCBS. You know what that is? Dumb Crazy Bitch Syndrome! (Laughs). But I can’t so I just prescribe them Z”. And that’s pretty much verbatim.

You couldn’t pay me to go to therapy most of those ppl are fuckin quacks. 

Oh no. Certainly that’s a hipaa violation

Did the article call Blake griffin a hall of famer?!?

This was my experience of sport psychs when I was competing at olympic level, ended up being dropped from the national team and they cited the stuff I was talking about to my sport psych about as a key reason

Obviously wildly inappropriate for the psychologist, but what the hell kind of coach is letting a psychologist share that info with him?

Presumably Vinny or Doc, although could’ve been assistants I suppose. But what the fuck man?

work or school psychs are not advocating for you. heard enough stories and seen it myself

If the company (in this case the Clippers) are paying for it, they likely have it in the agreement to hear the results of the sessions. This happens in the corporate world more often than you’d think. I found out that a major American consulting firm has full access to everything told to a therapist because the firm pays for the service. Kind of scary to be honest. Something everyone should be weary of or at least check the contracts. You’re more than likely fine if paying for your own therapy though.

Never trust HR either.

I have a fun story like this.

I used to live in a rented condo that was wall to wall with the rented unit next door, including our laundry rooms. So there’s a leak in the wall between our laundry rooms that didn’t really affect us as much as it did our neighbor. But our landlord gave us the heads up and what/when it’ll get repaired.

The next day. I get an email from our landlord. And it read: “Hello [neighbor’s name]” And it goes on to detail a plan that would peg us as the direct reason for the leak and through [insert property code], they could pin the entire repair costs on us. She wrote out a response for the neighbor to copy and paste into a separate email thread.

We couldn’t fucking believe it, the moron.

I emailed back “interesting lol”. She called us immediately and got an earful from us. We basically held the email over her head to eat the rent for the final few months of our lease and got the fuck out of there.

Nike’s Oregon Project running team had a “sport psychologist” on staff who would do exactly that. He couldn’t lose his license because he didn’t have one, although Nike did not disclose that to their athletes.

That’s a lawsuit.

As a clin psyc, this is absolutely a shameful breach of our ethical guidelines and this “clinician” should and would have never been able to practice again.

I’m ashamed to see someone in my field engage in such horrible misconduct.

It breaks my heart to know how many people lose their ability to trust mental health professionals bc of the bad apples like this. It is inexcusable behaviour and does much more harm than to just the individual client that was violated.

It’s exactly like Mad Men

It makes me wonder about if it was truly a mental health professional; as a person with credentials in the field and interest in basketball, I’ve looked into it before, and a lot of teams actually have “life coach” type people with a lot of slogans and “philosophies” that they approach the work from, but are not licensed therapists or psychologists; more like Tony Robbins type dudes. So not bound by the same patient-practitioner privacy rules.

That’s not really a surprise when guys like Dolan openly have their stadium bugged. Billionaires aren’t big on other people privacy or rights.

but he clearly didn’t need one … because the Hall of Famer’s career exploded to new heights after the sit down.

He’s not a HoFer. He might be in the future, but he’s objectively, factually not a HoFer right now. Just a weird ass sentence all around.

I’m assuming the coach was Doc…..fuck him too

Outside of some incredibly weird thing where teams are able to somehow legally work into a contract that therapy sessions with team psychiatrist are not privileged medical information, then I don’t see how this could be allowed. Like obviously somebody who wants to join the CIA is evaluated, and the findings regarding their mental state are given to those who decide whether they’ll be accepted.

But a current player on your team speaking with a team psychiatrist in like a normal therapy session? Seems like there’s no way that’s not violating HIPAA.

Revoke that mfs license. He doesn’t deserve it. This is basic as shit.

Two of the people I know personally who are mental health professionals are the last people in the world who need to be getting into folks head.

Sports psychologist is just a synonym for HR

This should be a bigger scandal.

This shit happened to me as a kid it truly ruins trust in mental health professionals

Of course it was the clippers

same thing happened to me as a teenager, therapists are hacks

Pretty sure these are ground for the shrink to lose his license.

Get this to the top. That psychologist should be named and disbarred, and anyone on the team involved in this plot should be named as well.

He should spill the therapist’s name and ruin them. That’s so fucked up.

This sounds like Doc Rivers music. I’ll guess the psychologist is not even real just a paid actor by Glenn. 

I would’ve kept going. And start telling the shrink all sorts of made up, fucked up shit.

It’s not a podcast!

Side note but why was he on a podcast with Lil Dicky and Benny Blanco

This is fucked

Blake once beat the shit out of a team official and supposed good friend for no apparent reason once. The team was relieved that the guy did not sue. Blake’s take on the whole event may be a little off.

Why do I feel like this happens with team sponsored psychologists all the time.

I would absolutely sue the psychologist, the team and call the state licensing bureau.

That’s legitimately against their code and 100% would lose their license and be legally liable.