Is coercive sexual behavior a concern in the client-psychotherapist relationship? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Legal definitions of sexual harassment focus on problems in the workplace or in education. However, there is another form of coercive and potentially damaging sexual encounters-those between a psychotherapist and a client, or between other professionals, such as physicians and patients. Professional societies such as the American Psychological Association clearly state in their codes that such behaviors are unethical. Nonetheless, they occur and can be damaging. Experts regard this kind of situation as having the potential for serious emotional damage to the client. Like other cases of sexual harassment, it is a situation of unequal power-the doctor imposes sexual activity on the less powerful person, the patient. This situation is dangerous because in psychotherapy, people have opened themselves up emotionally to the therapist and therefore are extremely vulnerable emotionally.
You might also like to view...
Abby is diagnosed with an STI. Her symptoms consist of painful sores and blisters in her anal and vaginal area. Abby most likely has ________
a. genital herpes b. shingles c. genital warts d. chlamydia
Havelock Ellis's book, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, stated that sexual feelings in women were ____
a. healthy c. unhealthy b. immoral d. rare
A person whose sexual orientation is toward members of the opposite gender is a _____.
A. homosexual B. heterocephalist C. heterosexual D. homocephalist
Blindness could result from damage to which cortex and lobe of the brain?
A) visual cortex in the frontal lobe B) visual cortex in the temporal lobe C) sensory cortex in the parietal lobe D) visual cortex in the occipital lobe E) cerebral cortex in the occipital lobe