Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Ways Of Avoiding Therapy Abuse

By Ines Flores


It is important to promote a healthy relationship between the therapist and the client. Therapy abuse is defined as using imbalance of power in the therapeutic relationship to manipulate, control and exploit their clients. This often occurs in many forms, for instance, therapists encouraging their clients to do certain activities that are not within the best interest of the client, encouraging dependency, using their vulnerability for advantage, abandoning clients as well as engaging in unethical conducts with the clients.

In most cases people seek therapeutic assistance for various reasons. That is to improve their condition by providing healthy relationship in which clients feels safe and secure. Therefore, building relationship trust is essential in providing a healthy and stable environment making it possible for the client to express their troublesome feelings and emotions.

People often seek therapeutic assistance due to vast reasons. That is aimed at improvement of their relationship or solving their psychological problems. This can only be achieved if the client feels safe and comfortable with the counselor. This makes it necessary to effectively build a healthy relationship between the counselee and the counselor. This healthy and stable environment is essential in making it easy for the client to express their feelings and emotions.

It is important to note that in the therapeutic process the counselee have significant influences on their clients making the relationship between the therapists and the clients. In most cases, client respects their opinions and follows the guidance of counselor. Most individuals perceive such service providers as parents especially those who experienced abuse or neglect and child abuse. They approve, accept and validate opinion as it replaces those they did not receive during childhood. In addition, adults who had previously experienced childhood abuse are at higher risk of abuse during therapeutic process.

The power possessed by therapists has a lot of potential influence on their client. That is they can offer along lasting recovery plan or damage. Therapist abuse often occurs regularly, however few individual reports such incidences. The aftermath of such incidences is uncalculated as most of the victims end up hospitalized and attempt suicide.

One can recognize whether they are at risk of being a victim of such abuse. For instance, if something seems off, you need to trust your instinct and seek an alternative therapeutic assistance. When you have realized that your therapist seems to be unprofessional, humiliating, degrading, intimidating, making suggestive, sexual or erotic comments among others.

There are numerous signs in which one can easily detect whether they are at risk of such abuse. For example, when one realizes that the individuals engaged in providing these services are unprofessional, degrading, humiliating, making suggestive sexual or erotic comments and intimidating the clients among others. They need to seek other alternatives.

Therapeutic process is aimed at making individuals to encounter and adjust to life challenges. Therefore, it is important to seek the service of professionally trained individuals who are experienced and licensed to offer such services to minimize harmful effects.




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