KENYATTA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT: PSYCHOLOGY UNIT NAME: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND ETHICS UNIT CODE: APS 424 NAME: FAITH KWAMBOKA ONGERA REG NO: C77/0521/2009 TASK: ESSAY ON DUAL RELATIONSHIP LECTURER: MR KAREGA MUCHIRI DUE DATE: 28th NOVEMBER 2012 Many professionals in the west are not worried by boundaries and dual relationships‚ for instance in the UK accountants and solicitors often get work from their friends‚ or friends of friends‚ hairdressers can
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Dual relationships are present whenever a therapist interacts with a client in any function beyond the one role as a therapist. When a therapist performs a role other than being a therapist for the client‚ it may introduce desires and goals that pertain to the therapist rather than the client. These desires can risk the possibility that the therapist will place their needs above the clients. One of the most common examples of this is a sexual dual relationship or often referred to as a conflict of
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Dual Relationships Page 1 Ethical Dilemma: Dual Relationships Professional‚ Ethical‚ and Legal Issues in Human Services Instructor Fowler Shawna Sparlin University of Phoenix Dual Relationships Page 2 Mary has been seeing her counselor for some months now to work on commitment issues. She has been dating Robert on and off again for the past year. Robert has asked her to marry him and she has said yes. Mary feels ready to take this step due to
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Nurse-client relationship‚ a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and a client built on a series of interactions and developing over time. All interactions do not develop into relationships but may nonetheless be therapeutic. The relationship differs from a social relationship in that it is designed to meet the needs only of the client. Its structure varies with the context‚ the client’s needs‚ and the goals of the nurse and the client. Its nature varies with the context‚ including the setting
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The Lawyer-Client Relationship CJA/324 The Lawyer-Client Relationship The Lawyer-Client relationship is a relationship similar to one of a long-time best friend. The information passed among an attorney‚ and the client is very confidential‚ as information shared with a best friend whom an individual believes and trusts in what that person says to him and primarily keep the information between the two. Lawyers must keep information
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Dual relationships are “either sexual or nonsexual and occur when counselors assume two (or more) roles simultaneously or sequentially with a client.” When this occurs‚ it can be very harmful to the counselor-client relationship and in some cases it is illegal. Many factors including ethical concerns have to be taken into consideration before a counselor assumes another role. The first and highly unethical dual relationship is a sexual encounter with a client. This is strictly prohibited because
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Facilitator Advocacy and mediation are integrated into various spectrums of the human services field‚ but when two methods of helping present challenges for one another there may pose a problem. Ethical‚ moral‚ and legal challenges of potential dual relationships are common‚ there are approaches that can be put into play which can help alleviate these stressors. This paper will provide perceptive on the integration of advocacy and mediation within the human services field‚ as well as personal philosophy
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extensively about dual relationships and also about ethical challenges specifically for social workers working in rural areas. After reading this article‚ it helped me better understand the special challenges and concerns that social workers face when working in rural areas One of the main things that stood out to me was when I read that the NASW Code of Ethics does not say anything against dual relationships. I always thought that dual relationships between the social worker and the client was not allowed
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Confidential Client Relationships Greenville Technical College Confidential Client Relationships Client confidentiality in the field of human services is a matter of ethics‚ legal obligations‚ and a right to privacy; therefore‚ a human service professional must provide a helping relationship that is conducive to providing client confidentiality. In respect to the matter of confidentiality‚ a human service professional must understand‚ acknowledge‚ and adhere to the privacy of his or her clients; consequently
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without crossing boundaries while avoiding dual relationships from forming. For example‚ a close friend of yours is having difficulty with her teenage daughter. She knows you are a psychologist who specializes in adolescents. She asks if you would be willing to see her daughter for a few sessions to straighten her out. Pope asks "What would each person consider the most ethical response?"The first problem given this scenario‚ there is already a dual relationship that is beginning because the therapist
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