This essay identifies four significant concepts that inform the Author, Penny, in ethical and professional development. Ethically it is important that professionals examine their own life as each therapist brings their unique character to the role. This Author reflected on insights that surprised her, challenged her and ways she would operate differently as a result of her research. She has chosen the concepts of dual relationships, unexpected termination, professional competence and power imbalance in therapeutic relationships as ethical areas worthy of deeper reflection.
Dual Relationships:
The Ethical codes all comment on dual relationships because of their potential harm, more than half the lawsuits filed relate to dual relationship issues …show more content…
Theriault and Gazzola (2006) estimate this occurs around twenty-five-percent of the time. It contradicts best practise ethics. This is rarely heard at counselling conferences and came as surprising news to Penny yet this realism is encouraging, bringing an acceptance of her humanity in a complex and demanding “calling” (Kottler, 2010, p.19).
Penny has learnt the value of engaging clients in feedback as she reflected on this professional dilemma. Miller, Hubble & Duncan (2007) found feedback brings greater satisfaction for a client in their therapy process. Penny’s challenge continues to be to overcoming her response to negative feedback, to ensure her own defences are not activated. Undertaking Ethics studies has inspired her to seek out feedback from peers and supervision, as per PACFA’s competent practice principle (PACFA, 2014. Section 3.1.2.B). She is already encouraged by time spent with classmates, where mistakes are owned and discussed in a learning environment. She expects to have more balanced feedback sourced from clients, peers and …show more content…
This has brought to Penny a spiritual love for clients and an authentic desire to alleviate the pitfalls of the power-traps in therapeutic relationships. The more knowledge gained by study, the more awareness of how much more there is to learn. This grows Penny in humility. Not only is this ethical, it is honouring Christ. Penny feels strongly motivated by this insight to aim at working more collaboratively with clients to avoid adding personal distress especially to those who have been abused by authority in their
Dual Relationships:
The Ethical codes all comment on dual relationships because of their potential harm, more than half the lawsuits filed relate to dual relationship issues …show more content…
Theriault and Gazzola (2006) estimate this occurs around twenty-five-percent of the time. It contradicts best practise ethics. This is rarely heard at counselling conferences and came as surprising news to Penny yet this realism is encouraging, bringing an acceptance of her humanity in a complex and demanding “calling” (Kottler, 2010, p.19).
Penny has learnt the value of engaging clients in feedback as she reflected on this professional dilemma. Miller, Hubble & Duncan (2007) found feedback brings greater satisfaction for a client in their therapy process. Penny’s challenge continues to be to overcoming her response to negative feedback, to ensure her own defences are not activated. Undertaking Ethics studies has inspired her to seek out feedback from peers and supervision, as per PACFA’s competent practice principle (PACFA, 2014. Section 3.1.2.B). She is already encouraged by time spent with classmates, where mistakes are owned and discussed in a learning environment. She expects to have more balanced feedback sourced from clients, peers and …show more content…
This has brought to Penny a spiritual love for clients and an authentic desire to alleviate the pitfalls of the power-traps in therapeutic relationships. The more knowledge gained by study, the more awareness of how much more there is to learn. This grows Penny in humility. Not only is this ethical, it is honouring Christ. Penny feels strongly motivated by this insight to aim at working more collaboratively with clients to avoid adding personal distress especially to those who have been abused by authority in their