What's your Minecraft Username?: windswake
What's the title of your suggestion?: Saving Our Psychs | Psychiatrist Suggestion
What's your suggestion?:
I’d like to preface this with the fact that I am a HU psychiatrist within the hospital faction, and all points pertaining to psychiatrists have been gathered FROM members of the hospital faction, both present and past. Alsooo I’d like to thank everyone within the faction for contributing to this!
So, we’ll start with something simple: What are issues psychiatrists face?
Now! A few suggestions from members of the hospital faction: How can we limit these issues?
A suggested referral system for therapy (from 6Pancake):
TLDR: Psychiatrists will continue to do therapy, however, they will be taking a more practical medical role, with therapy being less advertised and more of an ‘OOC Consent’ system, with involved factors of police still undergoing mandatory evaluations and insanity pleas still leading to a therapy session to create a verdict on their mental health.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
1. There’ll be less stress on psychiatrists, leading to less people leaving/getting burned out
2. There will be less misinterpretations/misrepresentations of mental disorders (people will be encouraged to do research in order to receive therapy)
3. There’ll be the potential to have more people able to treat minor injuries
What's the title of your suggestion?: Saving Our Psychs | Psychiatrist Suggestion
What's your suggestion?:
I’d like to preface this with the fact that I am a HU psychiatrist within the hospital faction, and all points pertaining to psychiatrists have been gathered FROM members of the hospital faction, both present and past. Alsooo I’d like to thank everyone within the faction for contributing to this!
So, we’ll start with something simple: What are issues psychiatrists face?
- Main way to get quota is draining to their mental health (therapy sessions), and get burned out
- General trouble with keeping up on reaching quota, not many options of obtainment provided in comparison to doctors
- Players don’t roleplay out disorders correctly (lack of research, stereotypes, etc.)
- Players project their OOC issues onto an IC character, and expect psychiatrists to ‘fix’ their issues when they’re not trained professionals
- Baiting minors from haloperidol having to be used on violent patients
- Players get upset if you say no to a session, both ICly and OOCly – Yes, it technically is our ‘job’, but we are humans behind the screen, and we do like to roleplay outside of the hospital aspect!
- Players report psychiatrists to staff because they don’t have time to do a session
- Players returning day, after day, after day to roleplay the same thing out when they’ve been told what can help, and refusing to.. do those things (e.g. refusing to take medication)
- Players talk about touchy subjects without asking the psychiatrist first, and therefore the psychiatrist feels uncomfortable (but also unable to say no, because they feel bad)
Now! A few suggestions from members of the hospital faction: How can we limit these issues?
- Limit therapy
- Creating a limit on how many sessions someone can have within a set period of time – e.g. (from Infi) Example: Kiyoko Akai comes to therapy on the 13th of March, therefore Kiyoko Akai cannot come back to therapy until 7-14 days later (1-2 weeks!) – Unless the psychiatrist is okay with doing the therapy sooner! This is to encourage the individual to follow through with the advice and/or medication that they are given within their session.
- This would be logged similarly to how recovery is logged
- More additional duties than cleaning, front desk, IVs, sutures. Such as the more minor procedures that Doctors currently do (i.e., dealing with broken bones, concussions, etc.), as if they are a nurse that’s able to do therapy rather than a psychiatrist that's able to do nurse work.
- Branching on from this, something to do with nurse work
- Possibly looking into different certifications that they can pursue - depending on if the role will be switched to nurse or remain the same.
- Nurses could do check-ups and non-emergency work (could become a shared responsibility between both departments)
- Insanity plea deals (town)
A suggested referral system for therapy (from 6Pancake):
- Individuals who come into the hospital requesting therapy will have to fill in a form. A worker will ask them questions (such as their name, discord, timezone, etcetera), which will be sent into a channel that psychiatrists have access to. This will also include any information necessary to be known in regards to the therapy beforehand (such as whether the character has a disorder that may touch on something that one of the psychiatrists is sensitive to).
- Psychiatrists will read over the information, and as a group, determine whether it’d be okay for the individual to undergo therapy (like a system of OOC consent)
- When they have been approved by the psychiatrists (with a higher-up ensuring the decision is fair), the psychiatrists will discuss who can take their therapy. Ideally, it will be a psychiatrist who either knows the individual and/or is in a close timezone to the individual.
- The Psychiatrist will then contact the individual via DMs to schedule a session with them, or recommend that they come in ICly when they have the time to.
- When the individual is approved on one character, they will automatically be approved on any other characters unless they are found to be roleplaying out any disorders incorrectly (and therefore face a hospital blacklist).
TLDR: Psychiatrists will continue to do therapy, however, they will be taking a more practical medical role, with therapy being less advertised and more of an ‘OOC Consent’ system, with involved factors of police still undergoing mandatory evaluations and insanity pleas still leading to a therapy session to create a verdict on their mental health.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
1. There’ll be less stress on psychiatrists, leading to less people leaving/getting burned out
2. There will be less misinterpretations/misrepresentations of mental disorders (people will be encouraged to do research in order to receive therapy)
3. There’ll be the potential to have more people able to treat minor injuries
