If you want to study something, do this without the deception. In short, why not a study of therapists, and determine the facts about how we'd actually be treated by them, whether legally required, legally allowed, or legally prohibited? Ask them to participate in a study, openly, with verifiable identities on both ends, ask your questions, then report those results.

Because if they know they are being asked these questions by a group of MAPs for a study, it could affect their answers and skew the results. So pretending to be a random MAP seeking mental health services was the best way to do it because we'd get the most honest answers.

If they knew they were participating in a study by B4U-ACT they could read all the information on our website and perpahps change their minds about matters and they're answers would be more positive then they initially would have been. Or alternatively they could read our website and not like our goals for some reason and answer more harshly. We were trying to determine what the average mental health professionals perception of MAPs already was without them learning any new information.

So this was a better way to determine the facts about how we'd be actually treated by them.