Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mental Status Report

When we do intakes at my agency, we have to do a full-page "mental status" report for our clients (including taking a guess at their vocabulary and intelligence, often based on the 8 words they've spoken in the past two hours). But oh, how I wish we had a category for parental mental status.

At an intake last week, the parent reported that she used to let her daughter do gymnastics, but then she pulled her out and made her stop because gymnasts are really short, and she didn't want her daughter to be short when she grew up. So, no more gymnastics.

"Ct's Mo exhibits marked cognitive difficulty re: logic and reality testing..."

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

and what is wrong with being short????

:) thanks for sharing julie--i love reading your blog.

Swiftyjess said...

I'm nearly speechless.