Sometime during your training, do you take an ethics class that specifically discuses the ethical/legal aspects of therapist/patient intimacies including therapist/patient sex?
Is this a mandatory class?
How is the topic presented in the student's curriculum? How well is it covered?
Do you listen to a lecture? Do you learn about Hippocrates? Is the issue only covered in the assigned reading? Do you watch a video about the topic? Are you able to ask questions in class? Have you had speakers do a presentation about what it is like to be a survivor of therapist/patient exploitation/intimacies? Do you get into the legal/criminal aspects of it at all?
Are there lectures about dual relationships?
I am having flashbacks of the deposition when perppsychiatrist was asked if he had been taught in medical school that it was wrong to have sex with patients....and he answered, no, he had never taken any classes like that.
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