What Is The Professional-Patient Relationship?

Perhaps once we get to find a patient in the street, and perhaps find patients who feel they are our close friend for the confidence and knowledge of the patient during therapy, if as a therapist I found a patient out of the office and the patient wants to say Hello! This is common courtesy and can be done in a professional manner. But as a therapist you never should initiate the greeting, or seek customer greeting, we do not know how they will react or what explanations will have to give if is accompanied. And perhaps this could be embarrassing for the client. I think if we found a patient outside of the office and whenever he / she who initiates the greeting, by education and professionally we must to return the greeting, always in a professional manner, we must respect the decision that people make …show more content…
But often Find yourselves us with invitations either to eat, or to a party, and similar requests are not surprising within the scope of the relationship between patient and therapist. And in all cases the answer is always the same; NO I'm sorry. The therapeutic relationship is a professional relationship, not a relationship of friendship. Since the professional-patient relationship tends to produce a special intimacy, there is a potential for powerful feelings of attraction that emerge in patients. These feelings can induce professionals to become more distant, resulting in patient dissatisfaction over-wrapped or emotionally during therapies, which will have consequences.
It is therefore important to determine the role of therapist and patient over the therapeutic relationship, this will eliminate future problems and misunderstandings. Our role as therapists is always the same focus at work and professionalism, never as friends. All care relationship in psychological therapy should promote and protect the welfare of the