How One Can Avoid Therapy Abuse

By Ines Flores


There should be a healthy relationship between the therapist and the client to promote productivity of a therapeutic process. Therapy abuse can be defined as the use of imbalance power possessed by individuals offering therapeutic services to manipulates exploit and control 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.

During this process, counselors are viewed to be having significant influence on their clients and their information is often taking with a lot of interest. That is, their opinions are respected and followed with little criticism. In some instances, they are viewed as parents especially by individuals who had previously faced neglect and child abuse. They often accept, validate and approve these opinions and replace them with those which they did not receive during their early years. It can also be noted that such individuals are at higher risks than their counterparts.

Research indicates that, if a client was abused or abandoned child, they are more likely never to develop self-worth, self-esteem and appropriate boundaries. In the event that a person has not developed above things they are more likely to be a target for adult abuse. Notably, such individuals who have experienced an abuse in the past might not be able to distinguish between a violation and therapeutic process.

Their power is significantly influences clients. Therefore, might offer a long lasting damage or recovery plan. These abuses regularly occur and most of the instances go unreported. It is important to note that the process might negatively affect the client leading to suicidal attempts and hospitalization of the victims.

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.

There are numerous signs in which one can easily detect whether they are at risk of such abuse. For example, when one realizes that the individuals engaged in providing these services are unprofessional, degrading, humiliating, making suggestive sexual or erotic comments and intimidating the clients among others. They need to seek other alternatives.

Most importantly, therapeutic process often involves assisting the client in dealing with their problems. This therefore, implies that if professionally trained individuals who are not experienced and licensed to provide such services are not engaged, quality outcome might not be achieved. This is instrumental in improving quality service to clients.




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