Questions:
1.1 How may a therapist break the code of ethics of the American Psychologists Association?
1.2 What are five ethic assessments to keep in mind when considering recovering a client’s so-called, “repressed memory?”
2.1 If a therapist is considering terminating services with a client, what are three criteria to keep in mind?
2.2 What does Bartlett state about ‘remembering?’
3.1 How is repression defined?
4.1 What are some codependent type characteristics a client might exhibit?
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Answers:
A. 1. Is there any other possibility or explanation for the client's behavior? 2. Have they been under the influence of graphic literature, film, or any other stimulus? 3. Are they already in a state of vulnerability? 4. Have you or a colleague suggested to the client that he or she may be the victim of childhood sexual abuse? 5. By using methods such as hypnosis to recover repressed memories, could you possibly be only placing false memories into a client's subconscious?
B. By misleading the clients into believing he/she was a victim
C. An imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude toward a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience.
D. 1. Consult with colleagues and supervisors about a decision to terminate services. In some cases, termination can be prevented by addressing relevant issues. 2. Give as much advance warning as possible to clients who will be terminated. 3. Provide clients with the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least tree appropriate referrals when it is necessary to terminate services.
E. Try to please other instead of themselves, abandon their routine to respond to or do something for somebody else, and believe deep inside other people are somehow responsible for them
F. A defense mechanism, derived from psychodynamic theory, in which the individual unconsciously pushes out of the consciousness certain memories, ideas, or desires that are unacceptable or cause a high level of anxiety.
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