"first, do no harm" includes psychological safety.
To use a bold example, there's a difference between telling your client they are "overweight" and telling them they are a "fat ass".
To use a bold example, there's a difference between telling your client they are "overweight" and telling them they are a "fat ass".
I would naïvely think that “fat arse” is vulgar or insulting enough (or at the very least way too informal) not to use it with someone you’re not familiar with. This has nothing to do with political correctness.
You can ruin some people’s day by calling them ginger. I would expect a psychologist to be sensitive to this sort of things (do no harm, indeed), but that’s not a good reason to make everyone stop using that word.
A huge percentage of Doctor's are abusive scumbags. Everything you hear about medical ethics, they do the opposite.
They are bigoted, and emotionally abusive, gaslighting monsters, who stubbornly refuse to self reflect.