Ethics in Psychology
Betty has been undergoing therapy for alcohol abuse and drug dependence. She informs the therapist that she would like to barter her services for treatment. Incidentally, she is in a beauty-enhancement career and runs a small salon at home. She offers the therapist a free package, including a massage, a haircut, and a facial.
If you were the counselor, would you accept these services as payment? If so, how would you accept?
If this is an acceptable form of payment, how might you ensure that it is ethically sound and that no power differential exists between you and the client?
Requirements
The paper should be approximately 6 pages in length, be double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal one-inch margins, written in APA style, and free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract and a reference page.In text citation should be utilized where appropriate. At Least three references should be used as appropriate.
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Counseling aims at providing therapeutic services to clients. This calls for professionalism that needs the relationship between the counselor and the client strictly set and adhered to in order to create conducive therapeutic sessions. Professionals are guided by ethics that create boundaries that are very essential and are made with the main aim of limiting relationships between counselors and clients………………………….
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