Dual Relationships In Social Work

INTRODUCTION

I would like to address to every applied psychology major student at Morrisville State covering the ethical issue and the importance of not having a dual relationship with your clients at work. Also going over and discussing how having a dual relationship with your clients at work can truly indeed affect your workplace in different ways.

DUAL RELATIONSHIPS

Dual relationships in the field of social work is something that happens very little, but social workers are taught before and along their career to avoid this ethical issue. Having a dual relationship can be challenging for some worker’s ethics, but as every social worker knows, it goes strictly against company guidelines or known as ethical codes. In order to have a dual relationship, one social worker must have another kind of social relationship outside of work with either a current client or former client (Zur, 2015). This relationship may be a sexual relationship, which is very unethical for any social worker and could have a chance to turn out to be illegal (Zur, 2015). Even having your client as a

Having a dual relationship is unethical, because doing something like this goes against your professions ethical codes and puts you at risk of losing your licenses. One legal action that’s possible of happening with a dual relationship with a client, is having the relationship turn into a sexual harassment case in court (Weil, Hughes, & Hooyman, 1994). If a worker is being brought to court for sexual harassment coming from a dual relationship, it can come back and drastically affect the look of the company. Not only can these selfish actions affect the company’s reputation, but it can also affect your own reputation and career as well. Being caught in this situation can put your job at