Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice
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Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice
Guilford Press, c2008
Available at 1 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-329) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place? How do you respond when a patient suddenly hugs you at the end of a session? Do you accept a gift that a patient brings to make up for causing you some inconvenience? Questions like these-which virtually all clinicians face at one time or another-have serious clinical, ethical, and legal implications. This authoritative, practical book uses compelling case vignettes to show how a wide range of boundary questions arise and can be responsibly resolved as part of the process of therapy. Coverage includes role reversal, gifts, self-disclosure, out-of-office encounters, physical contact, and sexual misconduct. Strategies for preventing boundary violations and managing associated legal risks are highlighted.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Foundations
1. Definitions and Dilemmas
2. Therapy and Its Limits
II. Explorations
3. Role, Time, Place
4. Money, Services, Gifts
5. Self-Disclosure
6. Communication and Out-of-Office Contacts
7. Clothing and Physical Contact
8. Sexual Misconduct
III. Implications
9. What Harms Are Caused?
10. Vulnerabilities
11. Understandings and Misunderstandings
12. Liabilities
13. Prevention
Afterword
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