Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethics
Topic : Managing Boundaries and Multiple Relationships: Making Ethical Decisions
Objectives:
Describe the difference between crossing boundaries and violating boundaries.
Describe how a counselor who is contemplating crossing boundaries or engaging in a dual relationship with clients can ensure that his/her behavior remains within ethical practice guidelines.
Describe how the concepts of exploitation and client harm are evaluated within the framework of multiple relationships.
Identify ways in which an ethical counselor can handle issues of physical attraction that may occur between counselors and clients.