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?·A- ?: -1.2,?· Spaes Heading 1 Normal No Heading 2 Paragraph Styles The case of Blake. Blake, a young counselor, encourages his clients to call him at home. He expects to be on call at all times. He frequently lets sessions run overtime, lends money to clients when they are destitute, and devotes many more hours to his job than are required. He says the more he can do for people, the better he feels. How might Blake's style of counseling either help or hinder a client? Do you see any potential ethical issues in the way Blake treats his clients? In what ways could Blake's style be keeping his clients dependent on him? Can you identify with Blake in any ways? Do you see yoursef as potentally needing your clients more than they need you? In what cultural contexts might Blake's style be viewed postively?

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Aim of counsellor should be, to facilitate behavior change in the clients, to enhancs their ability and cope their issues, and thus developing a self dependency in them. In this scenario, Blake is making his clients over dependent on him which would hinder the process and aims of counseling. The ethical issues of Blake's style of counseling is that, his any time availability to clients, helping them financially, devoting more than required time for them are making clients rely on him, instead of facilitating self reliance in them. The purpose of this type of relationship is the self interest of Blake which is to gain self satisfaction. This makes the counselor-client relationship ambiguous, and hinders in the achievement of short-term and long-term goals of counseling. His any time availability, letting sessions over time, lending money, and giving more than enough time for the clients are promoting client's dependency on him. Sometimes the lines of ethics are crossed, as giving extra time for a session with a client to feel better by helping the client to alleviate their issue in the talk therapy. This happens rarely, and the reason for this is that a slight relief in the distress of others by a small effort gives us a feeling of contentment and accomplishment. The collectivistic culture that emphasizes on the values of kinship and inter-connectedness in relationships between individuals and promotes dependency on each other, would view the counseling style of Blake positively.

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