Ethical and Cultural Issues Arising from the Psychology of Terrorism- 3 Credit Hrs.

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BPAbb3 - Ethical Boundaries in Balancing the Power Dynamic in the Therapeutic Relationship Post Test

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Questions:

2.2 What is the “Bad Apple Theory”?
3.2 According to mental health professionals, what is the “Special Status Role”?
4.2 Why might a client have a hard time seeking further therapy after ending an abusive relationship with their therapist?
5.2 Describe the “reversal of roles” characteristic of the boundary violation between a therapist and his/her client.
5.3 Describe the “double bind” characteristic in the boundary violation between the therapist and the client.
6.2 What are three examples of situational factors being manipulated by the therapists to remove constraints?
6.3 What is a symbiotic relationship?
7.2 In the Chesler Study, what was a common experience that nine women have experienced with abusive professionals?
7.3 What perception do abusive therapists have of the incest victim?

Answers:

A. Believing that the therapist was everything to them. When the client has complete faith that the professional was a person of honesty and integrity who had only her best feelings at heart and even believing that the professional had some special healing powers
B. When the client has the role of caretaker and the therapist uses the client to satisfy his/her need
C. The client has a hard time finding a therapist that she can trust
D. Making an appointment late after the therapist’s secretary has left, when a therapist invites him/herself over to client’s house, when a therapist invites his/her client over to his/her house.
E. Therapists who abuse clients are ‘bad apples’ that bear no relation to the rest of the mental health profession
F. A form of a paradoxical communication that takes place in which the therapist expresses a message that can be interpreted in two, or contradictory, or mutually exclusive ways.
G. Perfunctory sex
H. A psychological fusion of the two people creating a codependent relationship, therefore the client ends up idealizing the professional, clinging to them and fearing abandonment
I. The client has been “publicly deflowered” and therefore is no longer deserving of protection or respect

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Questions:

8.2 What are some important things to take into consideration when setting a therapeutic boundary between a therapist and a patient?
9.2 What are some examples of manipulation at a residential treatment facility?
10.2 Why do AAMFT, NBCC, and APA prohibit sexual relationships with a former client for a period of two years?
11.2 What are some warning signs of a possibility that the health professional could become sexually exploitative?
13.2 Which age groups are the most proficient at employing silence as a weapon in therapy?

Answers:

A. It is harmful to the client and to avoid exploiting the trust and dependency of clients
B. Defiance, refusal to maintain their rooms, poor school performance and general negative attitudes
C. Children and adolescents
D. Health professional brings up his/her personal problems, the relationship feels uncomfortable and ambiguous to the patient, alcohol or drugs are made available during office visits, unnecessary phone calls are made to the patient
E. Issue of time or money, the amount of information therapists want to reveal to their clients about their feelings and lives, and the types of issues which are appropriate or inappropriate to talk about