Family Ethical Dilemma

Answer the following question:

What are some of the unique ethical quandaries that therapists face when they work with the family system?

Your response should be a minimum of 350 words, in proper APA format with appropriate in-text citations and works cited at the end of the response.

Unhealthy
Professional
Boundaries
I. Intimacy distortions
• falling in love with client
• parentification of client
II. Inadequate boundaries
• not noticing boundary invasion
• over–responsible for client
• over–involvement with client
• over–identification with client
• role confusion/reversal
• inappropriate touch
• being manipulated by client’s unreasonable demands
• responding to inappropriate personal questions
• acting on sexual attraction

Social Relationship
• In a social relationship, you:
• Share mutual ideas, feelings, and experiences
• May allow the relationship to deepen
• Give and receive friendship and pleasure
• Use social communication, such as advice, opinions, and judgments
• Choose discussion at will
• Rarely evaluate the interactions
• Trade advice, suggestions, and opinions freely
• Don’t plan a time limit in duration or frequency of contact

Therapeutic Relationship
• In a Therapeutic Relationship, you
• Focus on the individual’s ideas, feelings, and experiences
• Offer therapeutic help to the person you’re helping
• Confine relationships to the work–related setting
• Encourage the client to choose the discussion topic
• Evaluate, with the individual, her/his interactions and progress related to defined
goals
• Encourage the person’s problem solving without interjecting your own preference
• Address and redirect any interactions that approach boundary violations
• Establish time–limited interactions with an expected termination