Accepting gifts?

This video considers the implications for counselling of receiving gifts from clients: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIs-BcNCPBg

• Do you or the organisation you work for have a policy on gifts from clients? What do you consider to be the important factors to consider when responding to gifts from clients?

After sexual boundaries are crossed

This video considers the implication of crossing sexual boundaries in counselling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnA_THOa5Ug

• How do you address potential sexual dynamics in your counselling work? How do you feel about talking about attraction – a client's attraction to you, or yours to a client – in supervision? What might the dangers be of sexual dynamics in counselling?

Counselling Scenario – Protecting boundaries

This video considers how a counsellor might respond to a clent's request for social contact and the subsequent management of boundaries.

• How might the counsellors respond to the client's request for social contact?  What might the therapeutic opportunities be in this dialogue?

Author Discussion – Protecting boundaries

Tim Bond discusses protecting boundaries.

Counselling Scenario – Avoiding exploitation of clients: poor practice and good practice

This video considers ways in which clients might be exploited in counselling sessions.

• How might the client be exploited by the counsellor's request for recording the sessions for her training? What do you consider to be the key differences between the 'poor' and 'good' practice scenarios?

Author Discussion – Avoiding exploitation of clients: poor practice and good practice

Tim Bond discusses client exploitation.

• Tim Bond discusses the dangers of client exploitation and how the two scenarios in the video vignettes demonstrate good and poor practice in action.