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Course Transcript Questions The Answer to Question 1 is found in Section 1 of the Course Content... and so on. Select correct answer from below. Place letter on the blank line before the corresponding question. Do not add any spaces.

Questions:

1. What is one rationalization some have about abuse of the personal contact boundary with clients?
2. What are some biases against the validity of the topic of the Sexual abuse of Power between client and therapists?
3. What is one key factor that adds to the power imbalance between client and therapists?
4. What are hurdles that remain after the client leaves the abusive relationship?
5. What are characteristics that separate the normal power imbalance in a therapeutic relationship from an unethical power imbalance?
6. What are warning signs that a client may be vulnerable to an abusive balance of power?
7. What are the categories listed in Schoener's typology of abuse?
8. What is one reason females are more vulnerable to therapeutic sexual abuse?
9. What are some factors exploitative therapy relationships can contain?
10. What is "robotization?"
11. What are the phases a victim may experience once she realizes the truth about her abuse?
12. What is a key in working with a client who has been abused by a therapist?
13. What are phases of healing for the survivor of abuse?
14. What are some feelings an abuse survivor experiences to detour him or her from informing others?

 Answers:

A. Many females are still programmed to believe that they will be happy and fulfilled by serving others.
B. Indulgence of professional privilege, role reversal, secrecy, and a double bind.
C. 1. focuses on her partner without any regard for her own needs, 2. remains subservient and self-effacing, and 3. starts to regain some control over her life.
D. The Bad Apple bias; Victim Blaming; Sexism; the Eunuch idea; and Codes of Ethics.
E. Naive and uninformed, healthy or mildly neurotic, severely neurotic, character disorders, sociopath or narcissistic, and psychotic or borderline personality disorders.
F. Experiencing a shutdown of thoughts, feelings, judgment and initiative.
G. It is key to show I understand, accept, and support their feelings of betrayal and anger.
H. Faith placed in the therapists as having special status.
I. Idealization of the professional; wishes for a rescuer; intense feelings bound up in the relationship; and traumatic transfer.
J. Diversion, erotic, exhibitionistic, dependency, power seeking, greed, and enabling.
K. Sexual abuse of clients mainly happened in the 90’s, and before. Today therapist are too lawsuit conscious for this to be an issue.
L. Seeking and finding support from friends and seeking professional help.
M. Shame, self-doubt, and fear.
N. 1. Remembering the trauma; 2. getting in touch with the feelings; and 3. developing a survivor rather than a victim mentality.

Course Article Questions The Answer to Question 15 is found in Section 15 of the Course Content... and so on. Select correct answer from below. Place letter on the blank line before the corresponding question.

Questions:

15. Regarding the psychologist's responsibility to respect peoples' rights and dignity, what should psychologists be aware of?
16. Under what circumstances does a psychologist refrain from entering into multiple relationships with clients/patients?
17. When psychologists agree to provide services to several persons who have a relationship (such as spouses, significant others, or parents and children), what should they clarify at the outset?
18. What is a warning sign for the patient/client that the health professional could become sexually exploitative?
19. What is Otto Fenichel’s definition of transference?
20. What are some interventions to counteract the power dynamic with clients who exhibit exaggerated silence?
21. What are types of patient/therapist relationships when working with trauma victims in which there will always be a need on the part of the patient to discharge built-up anger and rage generated by the insult to his or her self-integrity and the self-fragmentation that usually follow such a severe injury?
22. According to the EEOC, who else can be included in a sexual harassment lawsuit besides the person harassed?
23. What is an example of a forceful cognitive intervention to use with a client’s self-defeating patterns that if used correctly, will not violate the balance of power?
24. What behavior on the part of clients put therapists in a position of power and yet impedes the therapist in his or her task of assisting clients to transcend their limited notions of themselves?
25. What are problematic feelings a therapist might experience regarding a client/patient that might lead to a sexual transgression? 		Answers:

A. If it could reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist's objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in performing his or her functions as a psychologist, or otherwise risks exploitation or harm to the person with whom the professional relationship exists.
B. 1. The real, uninterpreted relationship, which is like any other relationship 2. The transferential relationship, which is dominated by fantasies and expectations on the part of the patient.
C. Misunderstanding the present in terms of the past.
D. You have the capacity to stop making things difficult for yourself and others when you decide to think differently about your situation and your life.
E. Which of the individuals are clients/patients and the relationship the psychologist will have with each person, including the psychologist's role and the probable uses of the services provided or the information obtained.
F. Anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
G. Relabel behavior, schedule a silent session, prescribe the silence, provide structure, provide freedom, create a game, and use nonverbal sources.
H. Special safeguards may be necessary to protect the rights and welfare of persons or communities whose vulnerabilities impair autonomous decision making; respect cultural, individual, and role differences; try to eliminate the effect on their work of biases based on those factors, and do not knowingly participate in or condone activities of others based upon such prejudices.
I. Nonevaluative trust or distrust.
J. The relationship feels uncomfortable, ambiguous, or confusing to the patient.
K. Thinking about the person outside of the normal context; recurring thoughts or fantasies about intimacy with the client; satisfying personal wishes rather than focusing on therapeutic goals; flirtatious behavior; or self-conscious grooming before certain appointments.

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