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Counselling Skills
Key Fact
Healthy boundaries are necessary in a counselling or helping
relationship if the relationship is to be effective.
! STOP AND THINK!
Read the follow content then answer the questions below.
Niamh has been seeing her counsellor, Amanda, for three years.
Normally, Niamh arranges her next session as she finishes her
last. Amanda works between 9am and 5pm each day. Last night
at 10pm, Niamh who had her counsellor’s personal mobile called
her counsellor for a ‘quick chat’.
1. If Amanda finishes work at 5pm, how many hours later did
Niamh call?
2. Is Niamh crossing a professional boundary here by calling
her counsellor so late?
3. What can Amanda do to ensure that she keeps her
professional boundaries intact?
You can check your answers at the back of this workbook.
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