Hi Libby,
I find it difficult to see how you are having a dual relationship with a
client you work with privately and are then facilitating a contsellation ?
Is the constellation work part of therapy? I thought the APS guide to ethics
referred to relationships with a client which are not part of therapy and
fall into another relationship category like friendship or family. An APS
meeting in Melbourne earlier this year focussed on this very question. The
example explored by the forum was where a psychologist who had a number of
lonely single clients, decided to establish a match making/ personals
business. A process of examining possible outcomes of this business and
consequences to the clients of the psychologits were examined. I suppose I
wonder how facilitating a constellation could impair your professional
judgement and how it might increase the risk of exploitation?
I take the point made elsewhere, that I need to witness a constellation
before I make too much comment, but surely the purpose of constellations and
the framework they are either consistent with or differ from can be
discussed, as a theoretical matter.
Regards
Anne Marie
-----Original Message-----
From: Libby Nottle [mailto:LibbyNottle@xxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Monday, 10 May 2004 11:38 AM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Dual relationships
Hi everyone,
I work in private practice and run constallations workshops with Chris
Walsh. At times, with consideration for timing, potential impact on our
relationship, appropriateness etc I encourage my private clients to attend
workshops. If they attend I am have a dual relatonship with them - as
therapist and facilitator. Technically I am in contravention of the Code of
Ethics of the professional organisation to which I belong - the Australian
Psychological Society:
"Members must avoid dual relationships that could impair their professional
judgement or increase the risk of exploitation. "
I could just not advertise our workshops to my clients. Just my colleagues.
Yet often a workshop is an extension of work that we have already begun 1:1.
And there would be advantages to our ongoing work for me to witness any
constellation that a client sets up. Working with a colleague in workshops
there is at least a professional witness familiar with the work to provide
second opinion on what happens.
I am curious whether other people have considered this issue and how they
manage it.
Any thoughts?
Libby Nottle
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