The Ethics of Scheduling
Therapists' ethical obligations apply to scheduling as well as treatment.
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Therapists' ethical obligations apply to scheduling as well as treatment.
...While good work can certainly be done in weekly and higher frequency engagements–within a variety of treatment frames– it is not a therapeutic given.
What’s more, the idea that the weekly work will continue indefinitely sets up an expectation that the client needs long-term help. As expectation so often leads to experience, there is now an indefinite amount of time that this person–regardless of the issue– will live as a patient.
Not everyone needs weekly therapy for two years. To suggest and more, to demand that this be a condition of treatment is unconscionable...
In the counseling profession...we are also bound to serve the best interests of our clients in accordance with ethical guidelines, as well as required to honor and not manipulate the power dynamics inherent in the counselor-counselee relationship.
Demanding that people come weekly, pay regardless, and remain indefinitely is in violation of these agreements.
