Colorado Technical University Online Employees Intimacy with A Client Case Analysis

Case Study: Employee’s Intimacy With a Client

Human services professionals have the unique role among most professionals of serving as an ally to clients, friends, and employees working together. The potential for engaging in dual roles (the professional and the personal-intimate) is a challenge to the profession, since human relations do depend on emotions as well as rational actions.

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Consider the scenario of the counseling psychologist and her daughter, a mental health counselor, from the case example on pages 329–330 of the Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional text. This case study requires your decision on the most appropriate approach to solving the dilemma produced by the daughter’s relationship to her client. Suppose that you are responsible for supervising the psychologist in her relationship to her daughter and the daughter’s relationship to the client.

Evaluate and discuss the complex relationship between the members of this case, expressed in terms of dual-role analysis. Present your decisions for how best to resolve the dilemma posed by the case.