How One Can Avoid Therapy Abuse

By Ines Flores


It is important to promote a healthy relationship between the therapist and the client. Therapy abuse is defined as using imbalance of power in the therapeutic relationship to manipulate, control and exploit their clients. This often occurs in many forms, for instance, therapists encouraging their clients to do certain activities that are not within the best interest of the client, encouraging dependency, using their vulnerability for advantage, abandoning clients as well as engaging in unethical conducts with the clients.

In most cases people seek therapeutic assistance for various reasons. That is to improve their condition by providing healthy relationship in which clients feels safe and secure. Therefore, building relationship trust is essential in providing a healthy and stable environment making it possible for the client to express their troublesome feelings 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.

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.

This power possessed by the therapist poses potential influence on their client. They either offer a long lasting recovery plan or pose damage. It can be noted that such abuses often occurs regularly but such victims often fails to recognize such incidences. However, the aftermath of these activities are uncalculated as higher number of victims ends up in hospitals and suicidal attempts.

One might be wondering about where can seek help in case of such problems. You need to talk to a friend, parent or spouse in the event of such occurrence. You can also seek information from the websites about individuals or organizations that can help in such situations. One can also seek another therapist. In addition, you can contact legal counsel, or file a board complaint or talk to the police.

Therapeutic process is aimed at making individuals to encounter and adjust to life challenges. Therefore, it is important to seek the service of professionally trained individuals who are experienced and licensed to offer such services to minimize harmful effects.




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