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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
Correlation is not the same as causation. It's a logical fallacy. Caution is always a good idea, but the conditions of a practice don't determine the ethics of the practitioner. As has been said, the nature of therapy is private, whether conducted in a solitary setting or a shared setting. There are factors that can be looked at as indicative of an ethical practice, but being in sole or group practice probably reflects economic reality more than ethics.
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This. All of this.
I can think of several ways that a client would be at the mercy of an unethical T in a group practice, where they would not have suffered in the same way in a private/solitary practice. There was an example of that discussed on these boards recently, and there have been some recent articles in the papers here about the lack of respect for patients' integrity in hospitals or group practices, which has led to pretty bad violations of ethical codes. I still don't think that most Ts who are in group practices are unethical, but when they are, their patients have the exact same protection or lack thereof as do patients of licenced therapists in solo practices.