Wednesday, February 4, 2015

How One Can Avoid Therapy Abuse

By Ines Flores


It is important to ensure healthy relationship between the client and the therapists as this is fundamental in promoting productive therapeutic processes. Therapy abuse refers to use unbalance power existing between the counselor and client to exploit, manipulate as well as control their client for personal gains rather than the interest of the client. This often occurs in divergent forms for example, abandoning the client, engaging into unethical conducts, encouraging dependency among others.

In most cases people tend to seek therapeutic services with an intention of improving their situation. This includes improving their relationship and resolving psychological challenges. This is often achieved whereby a good rapport is developed between the client and the counselor. Therefore, making it mandatory to enhance healthy relationship during this process, through this the client will express their feelings, thoughts 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.

Research indicates that abandoned or abused children my not develop self-worth, self-esteem and appropriate boundaries. However, individuals who are not able to develop such things are more prone to abuse. This is due to the fact that they have past experience of such scenarios and might not be able to separate between a violation process and therapeutic process.

Their power is significantly influences clients. Therefore, might offer a long lasting damage or recovery plan. These abuses regularly occur and most of the instances go unreported. It is important to note that the process might negatively affect the client leading to suicidal attempts and hospitalization of the victims.

One can easily tell that they are being abused by the service providers, for instance, unprofessional activities, humiliation, intimidation, degrading, making erotic or sexual suggestive comments that are most likely to intimidate their clients among other activities. This makes it necessary to seek such services from alternative service providers.

It is important to seek professional assistance when faced with such challenges such as being abused. You can talk to your parents, spouse, friends as well as family members. They also need to seek services from online data bases to access information about the best individuals and organizations. You need to file complain or a legal suit as well as contacting the police. Through this one will able to report the issues or challenges faced in such situations.

Most importantly, therapeutic process often involves assisting the client in dealing with their problems. This therefore, implies that if professionally trained individuals who are not experienced and licensed to provide such services are not engaged, quality outcome might not be achieved. This is instrumental in improving quality service to clients.




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