What behaviours and relationships are never acceptable?

CrossCurrents

• Sexual relationships with clients
• Borrowing money from clients
• Consuming alcohol or other drugs with clients
• Situations that exploit or cause harm to the client, where the counsellor’s needs have been set before the client’s needs
• A relationship from which the health care professional gains personal benefit
• Any relationship causing the client to feel trapped or obligated in any way. Even if there hasn’t been an act in doing so, simply the feeling on a client’s part can be a violation
• Any situation where the health care professional is stopped from offering her or his personal best to the client

Source: Debra Samek and Jo-Ann Vis

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