Establishing and managing appropriate boundaries for the professional allows for good practices. The readings guided you in self-examination and reflection on ethical standards, laws, and appropriate decisions.
Recognizing unethical behavior in yourself and your colleagues allows for competence and responsibility.
Discuss an area in which you might be uncertain about your position in an unethical dilemma with a client.
What about an unethical encounter with a colleague?
Discuss your ambiguities.
How might you manage your professional position ethically?
As you also read, dual or multiple relationships are inevitable, pervasive, and unavoidable, and have the potential to be either beneficial or harmful.
There is much debate in regards to the human service professional successfully maintaining dual or multiple relationships.
What are potential benefits of dual (or multiple) relationships? What are potential unethical threats.
