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Message: [QUOTE="Crossover, post: 5324077, member: 1067"] What makes this situation different from most in which there are allegations of physical or psychological abuse is that the central allegation involves a coach's attempt to intervene when one of her players is having "a mental health event". I do not know the particulars of what happened, but I can say that encouraging (and, yes, sometimes pressuring) a person to pursue voluntary commitment to a mental health facility is not for the faint of heart. And depending on the person, the illness, and family dynamics, the blowback can be fierce. I have been there, as both a professor and pastor. As with any endeavor in life, one can be more or less skillful, and more or less experienced when it comes to staging an intervention, but people are rarely cavalier when doing so, and the process is almost always messy, uncertain, and fraught. [/QUOTE]