When Clinical Judgment Gets Rebranded as Noncompliance

Sometimes a practitioner is not refusing to cooperate. They are refusing to pretend.

They may see that the plan does not match the student’s needs, that implementation has drifted, or that a support is being reduced for the wrong reason. If the system does not want to hear that, clinical judgment can get mislabeled as attitude.

The antidote is not being louder. It is being clearer.