What ways can Lori let her clients know the boundaries she wants to set about requesting her personal Facebook page? I am asking this question to see what ways a boundary can be placed effectively without sounding harsh or damaging a budding relationship between a counselor and their client.Reply

Lori is a professional counselor who considers social media to be a great way to stay in touch with friends and family. She uses her Facebook page to stay in touch with many people whom she grew up with as well as her friends from college. Lori also uses her Facebook page to advertise and promote her counseling practice. She knows it would be unethical to post any information about specific clients but routinely posts pictures of the outside of her office. She also posts information about new counseling groups she is starting and has a habit of changing her status each morning to a new inspirational message.Lori has even started receiving friend requests from a few of her clients, and she accepts the requests as long as her clients do not have a history of criminal or aggressive behaviors. Lori knows she never posts any inappropriate messages or pictures and believes Facebook is a good way to give her clients access to her when they are not in session. Lori feels as though she has nothing to hide and hopes the inspirational quotes and information about her practice will be helpful to her clients.Please be sure to spread your responses out throughout the week. Responses should not all be submitted on the same day. (Original Post Due by Wednesday, 7/9/2024. Two response posts are due by Friday, 7/12/2024)**********************************************************Paragraph #1 - What do you think is the primary ethical dilemma in this case study? What is the potential problem? Who could be most harmed if the situation is not addressed? Why would that person/s be harmed?Paragraph #2 - Select one sub-principle from this week's reading in NAADAC Code of Ethics that addresses the primary ethical dilemma. Summarize the sub-principle. Tell how the sub-principle applies to this case study.Paragraph #3 - Suppose you are responsible for resolving this dilemma. What would you do?Paragraph #4 - What is one question you have for your peers that is specific to this case study? Why are you asking this question? Respond to two questions of your peers and continue to check your original post for further discussion.

Paragraph #1 - What do you think is the primary ethical dilemma in this case study? What is the potential problem? Who could be most harmed if the situation is not addressed? Why would that person/s be harmed?Lori, while passionate about her profession should not mix social media with her profession. An ethical approach to this would be to consult the HR department about how to advertise the new groups or implemented programming without exposing any element of her personal life to her clientele. As well, this would eliminate the possibility of client information being shared unintentionally by community members or other individuals sharing treatment at her organization. This also poses a risk for client information to be shared that is privacy protected Though it doesn’t seem possible - eliminating the possibility for exposure of private information regarding client or clinician seems to be a more ethical approach.Being friends with clients is also questionable. While her criteria for allowing those connections is based on criminal history and aggressive behavior - it should be noted that perhaps clients should not have access to the clinician’s social media regardless of how controlled it may seem to be.Paragraph #2 - Select one sub-principle from this week's reading in NAADAC Code of Ethics that addresses the primary ethical dilemma. Summarize the sub-principle. Tell how the sub-principle applies to this case study.The sub-principle from this week’s reading in the NAADAC Code of Ethics that addresses the primary ethical dilemma here would be VI-19 Friends (Social

I am very interested to know how my peers would address a situation where a client was persistent with a social media request and kept pushing the issue. This is something I imagine would be difficult but have not had to deal with personally. I imagine there are a lot of cases where clinician boundaries are pushed similarly.

Q2 Describe what boundaries you would need to take into account when starting a new helping relationship with a client. (2.1)

In relationships, talking about personal boundaries is important because:Group of answer choicesIt's best to keep people at a distanceEveryone has the same boundaries as each otherIt's a good way to be clear about what is and isn't OK with each personIt's not important to talk about them