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Sexual Behavior Between Clinical Supervisors and Trainees:
Implications for Professional Standards
This article ("Sexual Behavior Between Clinical Supervisors and Trainees: Implications for Professional Standards") was published in Professional Psychology, vol. 11, #1, pages 157-162.
ABSTRACT: Sexual behavior between clinical supervisors and trainees presents a challenge to professional psychology and deserves to be carefully addressed. At least 4 areas need attention: the prevalence and nature of such sexual contact, its effects on clinical training, ethical implications, and the potential legal liability of supervisors who engage in sexual intimacies with trainees. The extent to which sexual behavior in the supervisory relationship may have negative effects on the teaching and learning of professional skills remains unknown until it becomes a legitimate subject of research and discussion.
See also:
- National study of sex between psychology students and faculty
- National study of of the ethics of psychologists as educators
- Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling (2nd ed.)
- Sexual Feelings in Psychotherapy
- Sexual Involvement with Therapists: Patient Assessment, Subsequent Therapy, Forensics
- National Study of Psychologists' Sexual Attraction to Clients
- National Study of Social Workers' Sexual Attraction to Clients:Results, Implications, and Comparison to Psychologists
- Therapists' Anger, Hate, Fear, and Sexual Feelings: National Survey of Therapist Responses, Client Characteristics, Critical Events, Formal Complaints, and Training
- Therapist-Patient Sex As Sex Abuse: 6 Scientific, Professional, and Practical Issues in Addressing Victimization and Rehabilitation
- Therapists' Sexual Feelings and Behaviors:Research, Trends, & Quandries