The last thing someone that has been abused as a child needs is someone that is abusing them in the name of therapy. This is an important post.
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor.
If a therapist does not belong to a professional group do they have to follow an ethics code?
There are a lot of rules about the relationships between a client and the treating professional. There are things that the professional can do, can’t do, has to do and is required to not do. Sometimes these rules get confusing for the professional as well as the client.
Recently a situation came up in which a professional was not a member of any professional organization, so the client left that visit with the impression that this professional did not need to follow any ethics code. This report of a problem left me thinking we need to talk about some of these codes of ethics and why a professional would need to follow them and what happens if they do not belong to any…
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