You are absolutely correct. If you look at the gender-dyad in cases brought up with the Board of Psychology the most overwhelmingly common dyad is, of course, male therapist - female patient.
Care to guess what the second one is?
Female therapist - female patient. This would NOT have been my guess, and most likely, the second ACTUAL most common dyad for sexual misconduct is female therapist - male patient; however, men tend to not report due to a myriad of reasons. (There's also the component of most patients being female).
Interestingly, there are a number of "straight" female therapists who have been attracted to female patients - check out Ken Pope's article - I believe it was posted in this thread.
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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
It's actually a very interesting question because the statistical data on this is very scewed. What I mean is that when the male therapist crosses professional boundary with the female client, the client is much more likely to report it than the male client would report his female therapist who crossed the boundary with him. So, the statistics of the reported cases doesn't represent the reality of what's going on, and besides that there is no other data about the commonality of the ET in each gender scenario. From what I've read in the professional magazines that regularly publish reports about disciplinary actions, both male and female therapists are being reported, including for sexual violations, but the reports on male therapists seem to be more common.
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