Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Social Work
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Social Work [18 VAC 140 ‑ 20]
Action Unprofessional conduct/practice of conversion therapy
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 8/7/2019
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8/5/19  9:22 am
Commenter: Susan Layman

No Conversion Therapy
 

Conversion therapy has been discredited by the medical community as psychological torture. We don’t allow parents to physically abuse their children—let's not let them psychologically abuse them either. Conversion therapy leads to depression and even suicide.  It has no place in modern treatment. 

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