Assignment 2: Current Ethical Issues In Human Services

Decent Essays
Current Ethical Issues in Human Services.

QUESTIONS:

1.What happened in your eyes?

2.What made you think it was alright to have sex with a client?

3.Why did you take the client back after he was seeing another therapist?

4.Why didn't you give him a referral when this started?

5.Were these therapy sessions you were getting paid for or bill for while having sex?

6.What made you think it was alright to have sex in your office?

7.Why did you have the client as a Facebook friend?

8.Why did you write him letter and take phone calls that were not related to therapy?

9.Where were your boundaries with the client therapy relationship?

10.Do you feel your license's were wrongly revoked? Why or why not?

ANSWERS:

1.I became sexually attracted to my client and started to have feelings for him. He had mutual feelings and we started a relationship together. We had a very sexual relationship that got more involved as time went on. We talked about ending it but it never ended.
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I didn't think it would hurt anyone.

3.I felt we talked about his feelings and thought we could move forward in the therapeutic relationship. At the time I didn't know it would be anything more than that.

4.I didn't think it was going to go this far. I would lose him if I referred him to another therapist. I didn't want anyone else to know this happened. I thought we could end it and work thought the feeling.

5.No.

6.It was my office and I don't share it with any other therapist. We both knew where it was and were comfortable in my office. There was really no place to go without spending money on a hotel room which can get

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