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Re: Rant in Response to All (very long)

Posted by Dinah on February 1, 2004, at 18:29:15

In reply to Rant in Response to All (very long), posted by Racer on February 1, 2004, at 15:32:35

Ok, I knew I had this information somewhere. K.S. Pope is the person who does a lot of research in this area, and he has a website. The following survey results comes from:

http://kspope.com/ethics/research4.php

Question Number 15. Telling client "I'm sexually attracted to you"

Results:
Occurance in your practice:
Never: 78.5%
Rarely: 16.2%
Sometimes: 3.5%
Fairly often: .2%
Very often: .2%


Is it Ethical:
Unquestionably not: 51.5%
Under rare circumstances: 33.1%
Don't know/not sure: 5.5%
Under many circumstances: 6.8%
Unquestionably yes: 2.4%

Question #75. Engaging in sexual fantasy about a client
Results:
Occurance in your practice:
Never: 27.0%
Rarely: 46.3%
Sometimes: 22.4%
Fairly often: 2.4%
Very often: .7%


Is it Ethical:
Unquestionably not: 18.9%
Under rare circumstances: 15.1%
Don't know/not sure: 26.8%
Under many circumstances: 13.2%
Unquestionably yes: 21.9%

Of course, 4.2% of those who answered the survey thought it was at least occasionally ok to disrobe in the presence of a client (question 78).

My research also shows that there is no ethical prohibition against telling a client that you are sexually attracted or fantasize about her.

I still have to question whether or not it's as therapeutically valuable, or if just would be nice to think it was.

 

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