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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion moved by Mr. Wamunyinyi. He has practically come up with a testimony which calls for professionalism. To avoid quacks in this field, we require regulation through licensing. When you look at some experiences, as Mr. Khamisi has said, they are diverse. I will pick on one or two things that Kenya has not experienced having travelled the world over. That is the trauma caused by crash-landing to the pilot in the cockpit or the passengers on board. If they have been admitted in hospitals, they are treated. But psychologically, those people are not stable and they are not themselves. Sometimes, it comes to a situation where somebody comes from a nightmare and does not behave normally. Another aspect of life where Kenya has not experienced is war. I have lived in the United States of America (USA) and I have seen soldiers from Vietnam, Kuwait and now from Iraq. You will require physiotherapy because when you see a child that you sent to go to war coming with one limb having been blown off, that is a family issue that requires a lot of caution, participation and understanding in turning that person and training the mind back to its original, natural formation. This cannot be done by doctors alone. Medical doctors have their own field. Psychologists have their own field. Therefore, to practice this, we need a regulation to avoid imposition. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another line that has commonly come up in the recent times is the Voluntary Counselling and Testing centres (VCT). We did not know what VCT was until the dawn of HIV/AIDS, that now, it calls for somebody to be talked to; the infected, the affected and also those who stay with the infected. Those people need to come back to terms with reality. When a person is maimed in adulthood may be, through a road accident, that person needs a tender touch and a psychological frame-work. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should reflect back on the children who are going through the dawn of insanity; the Sodom and Gomorrah on this earth. Rape cases traumatise the mother, the child and horrify the father. We need to have a venue and a wind of understanding. As much as we talk about psychologists, you also need to have a licence to practise dentistry. You must have a licence so as to treat a patient. We should avoid quacks who come with briefcases whenever they know that there is money here. Whenever there is a catastrophe, there are those people who capitalise on exploiting those victims. Some of them come in the name of preachers who are soul-searching and they want to pray for the victims. Spiritually, it is okay but even that person may not be a qualified preacher. He may just be a person who wants to frame up his own lie May 9, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1207 so that he can find money in one way or another. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even our Parliament does not have counsellors. The laws are made here, good words are spoken from here and taken into archives. Who goes to read the HANSARD after we have talked, apart from what the media has expounded, which may not even disclose much of what we have discussed? Therefore, training, regulating and licensing of psychological \"practosomiasis---\""
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