Standard 3.05 of the APA ethics code (2002) states that dual or multiple-role relationships occur when a professional and personal relationship take place simultaneously with the psychologist and the client, the psychologist has a relationship with a person closely related or connected to their client, or the psychologist has intentions to enter a future relationship with a the client or someone closely related to the client. Not all multiple relationships are unethical, however, psychologists should always consider whether a professional relationship could lead to harm towards a client/patient, student, supervisees, consultee, or research participant. The following examples demonstrate multiple relationships that would be prohibited by standard
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Green a Clinical psychologist is seeing a patient, whom she feels a strong sexual attraction. A few months into treatment, she tells her patient that she is looking forward to ending therapy so they can go on a date. This situation conflicts with the APA Standard 3.05c, multiple relationships because the psychologist wishes to enter into a future relationship with her client with whom she already has a professional relationship with. As we see in this example the psychologist is clearly violating the boundary of professional behavior and heading down a path of potential ethical misconduct. The APA ethics code clearly addresses that that the mere suggestion of a possible future sexual relationship during the course of treatment is in and of itself an ethical violation (APA, 2002). In this situation the best solution would be avoid any contact before anything further develops and refer the client to colleague, if they feel that your unable to control themselves and resist any temptation. In an ideal situation, if there is mutual attraction, they should of never established a professional relationship in the first place but considering the fact of the matter, there was really no way of knowing if an attraction would develop with a new. The best option would be to eliminate the circumstance and prevent anything else from …show more content…
One of the leading researchers in the study at the University has a couple friends on campus that use marijuana on a regular basis and they are in need of extra cash to help pay for books, so the student researcher wants to recruit his friends as participants because he thinks they would be a great addition to the study, plus he needs more participants. What the student researcher doesn’t realize is that he is personally and professionally invested in having his friends participate in the study. He is also crossing an ethical boundary by asking his friends to participate in a study to satisfy his own needs and exploiting them for his own personal advancement. The intimacy between researcher and study participants can create ambiguous or blurred personal-professional boundaries that can threaten the validity of data collected (Fisher, 2013). Also preexisting personal relationships are often unethical because the preexisting relationship would reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist’s objectivity and effectiveness (Fisher, 2013). Ideally, it would be more reasonable to advertise for participants through other avenues around campus like the campus newspaper, flyers, and/or through the psychology
Green a Clinical psychologist is seeing a patient, whom she feels a strong sexual attraction. A few months into treatment, she tells her patient that she is looking forward to ending therapy so they can go on a date. This situation conflicts with the APA Standard 3.05c, multiple relationships because the psychologist wishes to enter into a future relationship with her client with whom she already has a professional relationship with. As we see in this example the psychologist is clearly violating the boundary of professional behavior and heading down a path of potential ethical misconduct. The APA ethics code clearly addresses that that the mere suggestion of a possible future sexual relationship during the course of treatment is in and of itself an ethical violation (APA, 2002). In this situation the best solution would be avoid any contact before anything further develops and refer the client to colleague, if they feel that your unable to control themselves and resist any temptation. In an ideal situation, if there is mutual attraction, they should of never established a professional relationship in the first place but considering the fact of the matter, there was really no way of knowing if an attraction would develop with a new. The best option would be to eliminate the circumstance and prevent anything else from …show more content…
One of the leading researchers in the study at the University has a couple friends on campus that use marijuana on a regular basis and they are in need of extra cash to help pay for books, so the student researcher wants to recruit his friends as participants because he thinks they would be a great addition to the study, plus he needs more participants. What the student researcher doesn’t realize is that he is personally and professionally invested in having his friends participate in the study. He is also crossing an ethical boundary by asking his friends to participate in a study to satisfy his own needs and exploiting them for his own personal advancement. The intimacy between researcher and study participants can create ambiguous or blurred personal-professional boundaries that can threaten the validity of data collected (Fisher, 2013). Also preexisting personal relationships are often unethical because the preexisting relationship would reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist’s objectivity and effectiveness (Fisher, 2013). Ideally, it would be more reasonable to advertise for participants through other avenues around campus like the campus newspaper, flyers, and/or through the psychology