DANGERS IN COUNSELING

Question 1

THE DANGERS

Answer 1

1. Any violation of the ethical standards
2. Physical Context
3. Purpose
4. Over-involvement
5. Burnout
6. Not maintaining a vital relationship with God
7. Counter Transference issues
8. Doing too much work for the client

Question 2

PHYSICAL CONTEXT

Answer 2

• Touch at all times needs to be appropriate
• always ask
• always have to protect your reputation
• keep doors open
• rules apply for opposite sex, and same sex

Question 3

PURPOSE

Answer 3

• Purpose of counselling is to have the clients needs met

- can become twisted as time passes, continually keep this purpose in check

Question 4

OVER-INVOLVEMENT

Answer 4

• Be careful of too many emotional dependencies (you to client, or client to you)
• it may lead you to not being able to address the hard issues of the clients life

Question 5

BURNOUT

Answer 5

• Physical, emotional, spiritual exhaustion of the individual
• begins when we don’t take care of ourselves
• comes from the extensiveness of our responsibilites
• we cannot do everything
• high stress levels for a long period of time will lead to burnout

Question 6

NOT MAINTAINING A VITAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

Answer 6

-Can become easy to become self-sufficient

Question 7

COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE ISSUES

Answer 7

-If these issues are present and not dealt with in the counselling relationship, this can cause harm

Question 8

DOING TOO MUCH WORK FOR THE CLIENT

Answer 8

• We are to bare one another’s burdens, however we are not in the clients life, to run their life
• each person is responsible for their own actions
• if you do too much for the client, they will run to you instead of God