Multiple Relationships Ethical Dilemmas

Multiple relationships are ethical dilemmas that are common in clinical psychology and while the term multiple relationships encompass sexual and nonsexual multiple relationships the ethics of nonsexual multiple relationships are far from clear. This is especially true when these relationships are considered in close-knit rural settings. The ethical codes used by psychologists, which have been steadily changing over time, tend to have an urban-centric bias that makes it difficult to apply the codes to rural dilemmas. This review will focus on the uniqueness of nonsexual multiple relationships in rural psychology, the lack of a client's perspective in the literature, and two models that complement each other in how they affect the decision-making