n the therapeutic setting, which of the following best describes the impact of the power differential on sexual activity? Choose one answer. a. A practitioner interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with a client should disclose his intention to the client before providing more treatment. b. Safeguards should be put in place to make sure a client's wellbeing is taken into consideration before any sexual activity. c. The practitioner should seek to protect himself legally before proceeding with sexual activity with a client. d. A client cannot give consent to sexual activity, and therefore a practitioner engaged in sexual activity with a client is sexually violating the client.
| a. A practitioner interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with a client should disclose his intention to the client before providing more treatment. | ||
| b. Safeguards should be put in place to make sure a client's wellbeing is taken into consideration before any sexual activity. | ||
| c. The practitioner should seek to protect himself legally before proceeding with sexual activity with a client. | ||
| d. A client cannot give consent to sexual activity, and therefore a practitioner engaged in sexual activity with a client is sexually violating the client. |
Power differential can be defined as the situation in which one person having authority or power exert pressure on an individual to do some task that is not appropriate or the individual does not want to do that task, but sometimes he/she has to do because he/she is not left with any other option. This is generally happened in an organisations in which managers or high levels executives might violate the human rights and forces their subordinates to do some task which is either inappropriate or not belongs to their work profile.
Power differential can also occur during the counselling sessions as the client is emotionally weak and the counselor may take an advantage of the situation and may violate the human rights, professional ethics, forgot their moral values.
Counselors may indulge in any kind of sexual activity during the therapeutic situation, which is against their professional ethics, and since the client is emotionally weak, he/she may be vulnerable to that situation.
Basically it is the responsibility of the counselor, who has the power and he/she is emotionally stronger, to resist or not to indulge in any inappropriate activity (sexually harassment, physical torture like beating or stabbing etc).
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