Client Ethical Dilemmas

Discuss potential or actual ethical dilemmas or conflicts that have occurred in your field agency and how you have or can respond to them.
This semester Dr. Lowe has a patient she has seen for a long time. He is currently assign to an LPC intern student at the office. He completed his internship, and the patient will continue to see him for therapy at his new internship location. Then, Dr. Lowe, had the patient interview all the interns who are currently interning at her office. To become his new case manager, and help assist him with moving forward with his life. I don’t know if this is a standard procedure for clients to interview interns? What I find unethical about the situation is that upon working with Dr. Lowe we have not been trained on how to do case manager work which consists of a role that focuses on linking clients to resources. The agency usually is strictly geared towards doing therapy sessions with individuals, families, children, and parolee inmates. Majority of her clients are here for court ordered counseling, Medicaid patients, and anxiety counseling. My concern is what happens to this client after the intern leaves the agency, is he assigned to the next new intern? When it comes to responding to Dr. Lowe, this is her agency, and she does not like suggestions from a BSW intern, that is a fact.
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The office dynamics are different daily, some days there will be five to seven clients scheduled for the day. Next shift you are scheduled, and there might be a sibling counseling and an individual case. Upon starting your shift, there is a list of chores to be completed, and list of appointment reminder calls to do. Lately, I been going to my internship and have no contact with anyone and wait around; we can do our homework when the office is slow. The most learning I receive is when MB conducts our group sessions and our