The appropriate course of action to resolve this potential issue would be open communication and awareness of the roles, boundaries, and power dynamics involved in these relationships and each situation to minimize the potential for harm to the supervisee and supervisory relationship recommended by Pearson and Piazza (1997). Especially, in this case analysis the supervisor could potentially be taking advantage of the supervisee without even knowing, because the supervisee may just agree with the supervisor based solely off of the differences and power and the supervisors position. The last potential ethical dilemma is a direct result of lack of clear boundaries which is being able to effectively avoid issues or problems presented by their dual or multiple relationships.
The supervisor in this case was considering sharing a room with their supervisee during a family therapy conference that they both had to attend. It is clear from the vignette that there is another connection outside of the professional one. However, when there is a dual relationship in the supervisory relationship, the supervisee should not be asked to engage in social interaction that would compromise …show more content…
A course of action to resolve this situation before it even becomes an issue would be for the supervisor to utilize self-awareness and ask questions such as “how may sharing rooms be beneficial or harmful to my relationship with my supervisee”, and also seek consult before following through with the action. It is the supervisors primary function and main purpose to teach, implement, foster, and develop ethical guidelines and standards for their supervisee’s. Ever course of action or decision they make has an effect on their supervisees counseling experience, and ethical
The supervisor in this case was considering sharing a room with their supervisee during a family therapy conference that they both had to attend. It is clear from the vignette that there is another connection outside of the professional one. However, when there is a dual relationship in the supervisory relationship, the supervisee should not be asked to engage in social interaction that would compromise …show more content…
A course of action to resolve this situation before it even becomes an issue would be for the supervisor to utilize self-awareness and ask questions such as “how may sharing rooms be beneficial or harmful to my relationship with my supervisee”, and also seek consult before following through with the action. It is the supervisors primary function and main purpose to teach, implement, foster, and develop ethical guidelines and standards for their supervisee’s. Ever course of action or decision they make has an effect on their supervisees counseling experience, and ethical