Sexual Boundary Violations Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts

by Celenza, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780765704719
• ISBN10: 0765704714
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

This book addresses training, supervisory, and therapeutic issues related to the consequences from sexual boundary violations among mental health professionals and clergy. These problems are discussed on theoretical and practical levels aimed at understanding, recovery, rehabilitation, training, and prevention. This book can be used in developing training, educative, and preventative programs aimed at supporting professionals of all mental health disciplines. This book provides professionals with a resource on how to understand the problem of sexual misconduct from a variety of perspectives, including precursors, risk factors, supervisory concerns, psychodynamic underpinnings, preventative methods, and rehabilitation efforts.

Author Biography

Andrea Celenza is an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

Nature and scope of the problem
How do they happen?	p. 3
This couldn't happen to me	p. 15
Precursors to therapist sexual misconduct	p. 27
When is a couch just a couch?	p. 43
The therapeutic context	p. 55
Academic and supervisory contexts	p. 65
Sexual misconduct in the clergy	p. 77
Reporting, fallout, and recovery
Reporting and other ethical responsibilities	p. 95
Collateral damage and recovery	p. 111
Helping the victims	p. 129
Rehabilitation
Therapy of the transgressor	p. 145
Helping the helpers : supervision of the transgressor	p. 159
Prevention
Responsible responsivity
Love and hate in the countertransference : preventing violations through supervision	p. 191
Boundary violations vulnerability index (BVVI)	p. 201
Personal and interpersonal characteristics of transgressors	p. 213
A Rorschach investigation	p. 231
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