AVOID the “psychic” if:

The development of inadmissible by some “psychologists” with many violations of the norms of psychological ethics, and in some cases, the expansion of psychological work, which has no qualms.

“Aig” psychological services center, being the first and essentially the founder of practical psychology in Armenia, bears responsibility for all manifestations of psychological activities carried out in Armenia. We are concerned about the unprofessional, in many cases, dangerous activities of such professionals, and inform you of the potentially dangerous steps in which it is useful to leave such professionals immediately.

To be illustrative, we have titled:

AVOID the “psychic” if:

• At your invitation, agrees to conduct counseling in a cafe, park or other public place.
• Invites you to drink coffee and offers counseling in the cafe.
• Offers or agrees to work concurrently with different family members (except family or couples therapy) or friends and relatives.
• Compares you to him or her acquaintances.
• He openly expresses his support or opposition on this or that issue.
• Speaks to you in unclear terms.
• Diagnosing a disease and prescribing drugs.
• Receives the visitor in a non-secure environment (they may be overheard in the consultation area or another person may enter the room).
• Works with a visitor in the presence of another visitor.
• Works in parallel with two or more visitors at the same time (simultaneous work session display).
• While working with a visitor, he answers phone calls, calls himself or looks for something on the phone.
• Recording the meeting without the visitor’s permission.
• Criticizes or encourages this or that action of the visitor.
• Gives grades, labels, shames.
• He imposes the examples and episodes of his own life on the visitor.
• He reads sermons, does “educational” work
• He tries to show that he is more knowledgeable than the visitor, uses “I know better what you need” and similar expressions.
• Shows a discriminatory attitude towards the religious, sexual, racial or any other orientation of the visitor.
• Shows a depreciating, evaluative attitude towards the visitor, uses “take it easy” and similar expressions.
• He makes unreasonable hopes, gives guarantees, uses “it will be fine”, “it will pass” and similar expressions.
• Gives advice, uses “go dye your hair this color, because my mother’s hair is that color”, “You listen to me, wait, see what I tell you” or similar expressions.
• Requesting sexual harassment, propositioning a visitor for sexual relations, or in any other way violating the physical boundary: sitting too close, touching, . . .
• Agrees to work with a current or former sexual partner.
• Agrees to go to the house or some other place, meet the visitor as an acquaintance of one of his relatives and, without informing him of his profession, try to carry out “psychological” work.
• He invites the visitor to the house.
• Accepts or gives gifts.
• Please be careful, and if something seems suspicious during the meeting with the psychologist, you do not understand any of his words, attitudes, practices, write to us and get a professional professional opinion.
• Once again, we urge all professionals practicing psychological activities to unconditionally follow the psychologist’s code of ethics.

Run away from the “psychic” if…