Topic 5: Managing Boundaries And Multiple Relationships: Making Ethical Decisions

Feb 19-25, 2026

Max Points:105

Objectives:

1. Describe the difference between crossing boundaries and violating boundaries.

2. Describe how a counselor who is contemplating crossing boundaries or engaging in a dual relationship with clients can ensure that his/her behavior remains within ethical practice guidelines.

3. Describe how the concepts of exploitation and client harm are evaluated within the framework of multiple relationships.

4. Determine ways in which an ethical counselor can handle issues of physical attraction that may occur between counselors and clients.

5. Demonstrate the role and process of the clinical mental health counselor or school counselor in advocating on behalf of the profession and the advocacy processes needed to address institutional and social barriers for clients. [CACREP 2.F.1.d, 2.F.1.e]

6. Identify that counselors engage in self-care activities to maintain and promote their own emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing to best meet their professional responsibilities. [CACREP 2.F.1.l]

Topic 5 DQ 1 (Obj. 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3)

Assessment Description

Based on your program of study, read the ACA Code of Ethics or the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors located in the topic resources. Provide examples of dual relationships when these codes do not give definitive guidance about the appropriateness of the relationship. How should a counselor decide to enter or not enter into a dual relationship? Include a clear distinction between crossing boundaries and violating boundaries.

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