Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships Human Services through SNHU Shapiro in
Library. From what I had learned from this article far so is that Boundary issues occur
when professionals including social workers, — psychologists, mental health counselors,
marriage and family therapists, substance-use disorder practitioners, pastoral counselors,
psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses more than one relationship with clients and —enter in
some instances colleagues, whether professional, social, or business. Not until the did 1990s a
critical mass of literature on the subject begin to emerge, even though the broader field of
professional ethics emerged as a bona fide specialty the This significant in 1970s. is a
development the evolution in of the professional ethics field. Some dual relationships need to
be prevented, such sexual relationships with clients. Other dual relationships inevitable as are
and need managed carefully for example, when professionals who work live to be — and in a