Mental health treatment in Guyana is being practiced by non-professionals and this is very dangerous, according to Ingrid Goodman, who has worked in the area in various countries.
Goodman continues to accuse the government of not engaging her, even though she has a lot to offer, inclusive of a Women’s Refuge Home to rehabilitate mothers accused of abusing their children. “My observation has been that the new administration’s modus operandi is that they have the solution to every problem, and they are paying lip service to partnership,” Goodman told the Sunday Stabroek in an interview.
She has had some head-butting with persons in high office, inclusive of Director of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene and former Minister of Social Services Volda Lawrence. Last year, she had revealed that a mental assessment conducted on staff at three state-run child care facilities—the Mahaica Children’s Home, Sophia Care Centre and the Drop-In Centre—found troubling issues, including the inability of more than half of the caregivers to define the term abuse and the use of lashes as the main form of punishment.
She had accused
