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Objective:To understand counselors' use of social media from the perspective of clients, and find the relevant ethical issues. Methods: The questionnaire of how clients regarding counselors'use of social media was made as evaluation tool. Totally 434 valid questionnaires were received, including 86 males and 348 females, aged (36 ±7) years. Results: Almost 51.6％ of the clients got information of counseling and counselors through social media, and 35.9％ received online counseling through social media. Several ethical issues existed. Counselors didn't make informed consent with clients, which included the confidentiality, security and real identity about online counseling issues. Clients and counselors added WeChat or QQ friends and interacted with each other outside the counseling process. This situation led to multiple relations. Counselors' personal exposure in their social media negatively impressed clients. Counselors had over propaganda or clients'privacy expose during advertising or training through social media. Conclusion: Counselors' using social media for counseling involve many ethical issues. The confidentiality and multiple relations are more complex and subtle due to Internet features. The ethical issue of counselors' self-exposure in personal social media particularly requires being noticed.
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Objective:To investigate the relation of counselors'and therapists'interpersonal personality on the ethical behavior of dual relationship.Methods:Totally 177 practitioners (21-65 years old) were investigated with 4 interpersonal personality subscales of the Chinese Personality Inventory (CPAI) and the Questionnaire of the attitude of counselors to the ethical behavior of dual relationship.Results:There were no differences of 4 dimension of interpersonal personality on the 6 items of professional relationship between higher and lower groups (Ps ＞ 0.05),but on the other 5 types of dual relations respectively,there were 6 (9％),10 (15％),12 (18％) and 21 items'(32％) score showing statistically difference (Ps ＜ 0.05).Furthermore,more items had score difference on social relationship.Conclusion:It suggests that the counselors'and therapists'interpersonal personality may be related to the ethical behavior in dual relationship.
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Objective: To explore the dual relationships and associated factors among Chinese counselors and psychotherapists.Methods: 1000 participants were investigated by a self-made questionnaire composed of ethical problems in psychotherapy and counseling.Results: The main dual relationships between counselors/psychotherapists and clients were the association of friends.Thirty-two percent of participants provided counseling or psychotherapy to their friends.To the item of "providing counseling or psychotherapy for their friends,students,supervisee,employees",the judges of ethical beliefs of participants were inconsistent,and forty-one percent of them thought that such behaviors were ethical.These items were the main associated factors,such as gender,the duration time of professional experience,the title of a technical post,the different experience of training,prescription,and medicine.Conclusion: The present state of nonsexual dual relationships between counselors/psychotherapists and clients are not rare,and the ethical beliefs of some participants in dual relationships were blurring.It is necessary to intensify the professional education,unify the ethical code,and accept the help of psychotherapy and supervision,in order to improve the current states of Chinese counselors and psychotherapists.