Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutheil, Thomas G. (-)
Other Authors: Brodsky, Archie
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Guilford Press c2008.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798526206719
Table of Contents:
  • Definitions and dilemmas
  • Therapy and its limits
  • Role, time, place
  • Money, services, gifts
  • Self-disclosure
  • Communication and out-of-office contacts
  • Clothing and physical contact
  • Sexual misconduct
  • What harms are caused?
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Understandings and misunderstandings
  • Liabilities
  • Prevention.