TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient-Therapist Boundary Issues
T2 - An Integrative Review of Theory and Research
AU - Smith, David
AU - Fitzpatrick, Marilyn
PY - 1995/10
Y1 - 1995/10
N2 - Boundary issues, which regularly arise in therapy, can present difficult dilemmas for clinicians. The purpose of this article is to help clinicians resolve these dilemmas by integrating some of the theoretical positions with empirical evidence reported in the literature on boundary issues in counseling and psychotherapy. The authors review the concept of treatment boundaries and the ethical principles that underpin them. They also review common boundary violations and provide recommendations to attenuate harm done to clients when such boundary violations occur in therapy.
AB - Boundary issues, which regularly arise in therapy, can present difficult dilemmas for clinicians. The purpose of this article is to help clinicians resolve these dilemmas by integrating some of the theoretical positions with empirical evidence reported in the literature on boundary issues in counseling and psychotherapy. The authors review the concept of treatment boundaries and the ethical principles that underpin them. They also review common boundary violations and provide recommendations to attenuate harm done to clients when such boundary violations occur in therapy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0642370588&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/0735-7028.26.5.499
DO - 10.1037/0735-7028.26.5.499
M3 - Article
C2 - 14621713
AN - SCOPUS:0642370588
VL - 26
SP - 499
EP - 506
JO - Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
JF - Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
SN - 0735-7028
IS - 5
ER -