Jonathan Henk, a psychiatric nurse who forced himself on a patient he was secretly dating after discovering she was pregnant by another man, has been struck off
Daily Telegraph – January 25, 2012
Henk, 47, fell in love with the woman, proposed to her and invited her to move into his home. Henk also whisked her off on a three-day holiday to Majorca during their five month affair in 2008, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. But the woman believed Henk was seeing another psychiatric patient and the romance fizzled out. Henk then tried to bully her into keeping quiet about their affair.
The nurse was working at Halesview Mental Health Centre in Halesowen, West Midlands when he started counselling ‘patient A’ for panic attacks in April 2007.
In March the following year, he referred her to another psychiatrist then began seeing her outside work. Henk wooed her by sending a flurry of personal text messages and telling her he had ‘butterflies’ when he saw her for the first time.
Cassandra Scarborough, for the NMC, told how Patient A felt pressured to have sex with Henk’ during their five-month fling. “Mr Henk engaged in their first intimate contact at his house when he took Patient A to the Merry Hill shopping centre in Dudley, and then said on their way he would need to get changed. He took her to his house, poured her a glass of wine, told her she was beautiful, and kissed her. They had sex for the first time in April 2008, when Mr Henk took her out for a drink in Bromsgrove and she became very drunk. At that stage, he made it clear to her that no-one should find out about their relationship. It is the council’s case that Mr Henk initiated the relationship and that he clearly took advantage of his position with a vulnerable client.”
The romance soured in July 2008, when Patient A moved in with Henk, and he became suspicious of her friendship with another man. ‘On August 27, 2008, Mr Henk came to her house, she told him she was pregnant, and, upon hearing that news, he said he would stay for lunch,’ said Ms Scarborough. Patient A told Henk she was pregnant and that he should leave her alone, then he had sex with her without her consent. ‘Suffice to say her health deteriorated as a result of that incident,’ she said.
After the pair split up, Henk tried to bully her into silence after her ex-boyfriend reported him to bosses at Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. He even forced her to write a letter saying she would withdraw her complaint, before driving her to the post box himself, the hearing was told.
An internal enquiry was launched but later abandoned after Henk resigned. The NMC panel found 20 charges were found proved and ruled his actions were sexually motivated and amounted to ‘very serious misconduct’.
Further reading:http://www.cchr.co.uk/downloads/Psychiatric%20Rape.pdf
A disgraced South African doctor – banned in the UK and Australia during a 30-year career tarnished by medical misconduct, fraud and sexual harassment – has been found to be treating patients in Cape Town under a new name.
Daily Mirror – January 14, 2012
It has been noted through newspaper reports, that people in the health service say mental health has been and continues to be treated as a Cinderella service, meaning that the field of mental health is poor, that it has been neglected, or that it has been denied resources.
In fact, the reasons for people feeling low can be many and varied. People do experience problems and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles, sometimes very serious. But to represent that these troubles can only be alleviated with dangerous drugs is both dishonest and harmful.
antidepressants and ‘talk therapy’ in a clinical trial that looked at ‘treatments’ given for depression.
It’s the time of year when children might be accused of having “difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities,” a time when they might “lose things necessary for tasks or activities,” a time when they may be “easily distracted by extraneous stimuli,” a time when they may have “difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly,” or a time when they may talk “excessively.”
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Contrary to recent press reports, there’s nothing ‘smart’ about taking drugs as a form of cognitive enhancement. The only thing remotely smart about the whole charade is the pharmaceutical marketing techniques used in an attempt to convince students they might get better grades by taking drugs.