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What signs might alert you to a potential professional boundary violation or crossing?
What are the warning signs of boundary crossing?
- Showing favoritism.
- Having more physical contact than is required or appropriate.
- Spending breaks or time off with a client.
- Discussing personal or intimate issues with a client not related to their care or your nursing role.
What are good counseling boundaries?
Healthy boundaries in clients means the counselor offers an appropriate amount of information, feels comfortable with their own decisions, and doesn’t compromise his or her own values. Healthy boundaries allow a person to have high self-esteem, be assertive and make good decisions.
What should I do if a female client crosses the line?
Documented cases exist where female clients have crossed the line. The first thing to do when a client crosses the line is to break physical contact. If possible make eye contact. Make sure the client is properly covered. Stand in a relaxed yet grounded manner and use a firm voice.
What does it mean when you cross the line?
Crossing the line as you did in these situations can be thought of as a reflection of your emotional intelligence.
Do you cross the line when you make jokes?
When you’re using one of the two adaptive forms of humor, you probably won’t cross over the line, unless it is to make jokes when no jokes should be made at all. Even then, if your emotional intelligence is high, you’ll be unlikely to make such an error in social judgment.
How can you tell if a sex therapist is abusing you?
If a practitioner is verbally aggressive about the erection or hurts the client physically to quell the erection, the practitioner is abusing the client. Worse, many practitioners learn in school to discourage erections by “pressing hard on certain points.”