Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services
Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Some acts,…
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Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services
Should a therapist disclose personal information to a client, accept a client's gift, or provide a former client with a job? Some acts, such as initiating a sexual relationship with a client, are clearly prohibited, yet what about more subtle interactions, such as hugging or accepting invitations to a social event? Is it appropriate to exchange e-mail or text messages with clients or correspond with them on social networking websites?
Reamer offers a frank analysis of a range of boundary issues that human-service practitioners may confront. Is maintaining a friendship with a former client or a client's relative a conflict of interest?Frederic G. He confronts the ethics of intimate relationships with clients and former clients, the healthy parameters of practitioners' self-disclosure, the giving and receiving of gifts and favors, and the unavoidable and unanticipated