CASE
After a hard work week, you go to the movies with your partner. The theater is packed. As the lights dim, you lean over and give your partner a passionate kiss. While kissing, you accidentally make eye contact with the person in the seat next to your partner who happens to be your client you had seen earlier in the day. Towards the end of the session, the client had revealed feelings of intense attraction towards you. What do you do at the movie theater & in the next session?
• Based on your reading of textbook chapter(s) what are the ethical issue(s) in this case, if any? • Explain the ethical challenge by drawing on the necessary elements of ethical code(s) & principles. Use either AAMFT or APA as per your discipline. In your words, tell us which ethical principle(s) (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2016, p. 5) are you drawing upon? • Tell us how you decided YOUR best course of action at the theater & at the next session? Which factors did you consider?
Identify the ethical issue, what is the ethical code(s) and principle(s). What is your best course of action and how you attend to relational ethics?