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A 5 page exploration of boundaries in the therapeutic setting. Boundary issues revolve around conflicts between the completion of professional duties and social, sexual, religious, or business relationships. Boundaries are a necessary component of the therapeutic environment for both the professional and the patient. When overstepped, patient health and well-being are compromised. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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issues, the inappropriate crossing of lines by the therapist, can erupt in practically any therapeutic setting. Reamer (2003) notes that boundary issues revolve around conflicts between the completion of
professional duties and "social, sexual, religious, or business relationships". Williams (1997) expresses concern that boundary violations can include such actions as "hugging, dining with, self-disclosing personal information or feelings
to, making house calls to, exchanging gifts with, engaging in non-sexual socializing with, or lending books to patients during treatment". While the most concerning boundary issue in psychotherapy would
be sexual intercourse between patient and therapist, Williams (1997) concern that the more typical activities noted above are in reality consistent with the approach of humanistic and behavioral psychotherapy.
He emphasizes, that under the definitions currently being bantered about in the psychotherapeutic community: "even
scrupulous humanistic, behavioral, and eclectic practitioners might appear to practice negligently by virtue of engaging in behaviors which some consider to be boundary violations and that innovative practice might be
stifled by risk management concerns" Obviously, clients welfare must be protected at a premium.
If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilemma presents itself as to how to best protect patient welfare. Not all in psychotherapy is, after
all, cut and dried. While sometimes a therapist is able to achieve tremendously positive results in regard to the mental well-being of their patient, other times the therapeutic environment
can not only be characterized by failure but can even be counterproductive. True boundary violations would, by all assessments, undoubtedly result in deleterious impacts to the patient.
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