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- Title
Ethics and the Ideal Helping Relationship: Response to Hill and Mamalakis.
- Authors
Butler, Mark H.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study which evaluated an ethical decision-making model for family therapists. The essence of therapy is the helping relationship. Thus the goal of any clinical model, including a code of professional ethics is to describe as definitively as possible the idea helping relationship. Departures from ideal conditions must be warranted by significant and highly probable benefit, not outweighed by the possibility of countervailing harm. Sonic departures from ideal clinical conditions are of such gravity that they are expressly prohibited. as in the case of dual therapist sexual partner relationships. The prohibition of other departures is not absolute, but decidedly cautionary. The authors agree with Hill and Mamalakis that apparently unavoidable departures from ethical guidelines-as in the case of a duaI relationship within religious, rural, or minority communities-must be cautiously evaluated to avoid too casual dismissal of a prudent and consensus-based ethical standard.
- Subjects
DECISION making; PROBLEM solving; FAMILY psychotherapy; FAMILY therapists; WORK ethic; JOB absenteeism
- Publication
Family Relations, 2001, Vol 50, Issue 3, p209
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-3729.2001.00209.x