Description
Review the resources and vignette below, then answer the follow questions in your critical analysis paper.
The essay should include:
What is the connection between client rights and counselor ethics/responsibilities?
What ethical concerns and/or violations are present in the vignette?
What do you think would be more ethical choices that the clinician in the vignette could make?
What questions do you still have about client rights and counselor ethics that were not answered by these resources?
Resources:
Vignette:
Dr. Lisa Metzger finds out after she has been seeing a patient for several months that the client is her son’s girlfriend, Rafi. She does not know what to do because this is a new romantic relationship and she has been seeing the client for several months.
The client does not know Dr. Metzger is her boyfriend’s mother, and Dr. Metzger does not disclose immediately, wondering what she should do. Dr. Metzger is horrified as she has to listen to explicit details of her son’s sex life. Dr. Metzger becomes very anxious and changes her therapeutic interventions in order to encourage her client to break up with her boyfriend. Dr. Metzger bumps into her client in a department store. As she sees her son and her patient in the store she abruptly pulls her husband behind a bed trying to avoid to be seen by Rafi and David. Because her husband wants to know what is going on she discloses the nature of her relationship with Rafi. When Dr. Metzger tells her son that she knows about his romance and that Rafi is her client, she also discloses some of the content of their therapy sessions with him.
