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Ways Of Avoiding Therapy Abuse

By Ines Flores


There should be a healthy relationship between the therapist and the client to promote productivity of a therapeutic process. Therapy abuse can be defined as the use of imbalance power possessed by individuals offering therapeutic services to manipulates exploit and control the clients.

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.

During this process, counselors are viewed to be having significant influence on their clients and their information is often taking with a lot of interest. That is, their opinions are respected and followed with little criticism. In some instances, they are viewed as parents especially by individuals who had previously faced neglect and child abuse. They often accept, validate and approve these opinions and replace them with those which they did not receive during their early years. It can also be noted that such individuals are at higher risks than their counterparts.

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 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.

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.

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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