5.3 - Boundary Issues

Question 1

Professional boundaries provide a foundation for:

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effective professional relationships

Question 2

effective professional relationships foster

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a sense of trust/safety for clients

Question 3

Three considerations of multiple relationships are:

Answer 3

1. Be aware of client vulnerability
2. Regarding conflict of interest
3. Ensure your objective is not compromised.

Question 4

Inappropriate boundary crossings

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Undermine therapy, disrupt the therapeutic relationship, and cause harm to clients

Question 5

Boundary crossings are deviations from traditional practice that some psychologists perceive as

Answer 5

appropriate

Question 6

Blurring of boundaries has been considered:

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a precursor to later major transgressions

Question 7

Boundary crossings are _______ necessarily unethical

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Not

Question 8

the frequency with which minor boundary crossings lead to major boundary violations

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is greatly exaggerated

Question 9

Van Horn (2004) showed that ____ of licensed psycholo- gists are investigated by state licensing boards in any given year

Answer 9

2%

Question 10

The analogies from physics and logic argue that once one steps on the slippery slope that the descent into boundary violations

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is inevitable

Question 11

Smith and Fitzpatrick (1995) defined boundary crossing as

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“a nonpejorative term that describes departures from commonly accepted clinical practice that may or may not benefit the client

Question 12

The first, Maintenance, refers to the degree to which students retain the

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ethical and value traditions of their culture of origin

Question 13

The first, Maintenance, refers to the degree to which students retain the

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ethical and value traditions of their culture of origin

Question 14

Contact and Participation, refers to the degree to which students

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adopted the norms and values of their new professional culture

Question 15

When students are relatively high on both Maintenance and Contact, they use an

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integration strategy

Question 16

integration strategy is the best possible choice because

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it means that students can incorporate the ethical values of psychology and maintain their personal values

Question 17

Separation is a strategy that is

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high in Maintenance but low in Contact and Participation

Question 18

assimilation refers to an

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overidentification with professional stan- dards to the extent that practitioners may lose many of their own personal values

Question 19

The most problematic acculturation strategy is

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marginalization

Question 20

Handelsman et al. (2002) contended that ethics should be

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taught and practiced from a more positive or aspirational perspec- tive,