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Information and Technology - Dilemma The safety plan for Wade's adolescent client dictated that she call Wade, a private practitioner in La Plata, MD, whenever she felt like cutting herself. But instead of calling, the client kept texting Wade. When Wade responded by calling the client back to try to de-escalate the situation, the girl would hang up on Wade, insisting she didn't want to talk. The client would then explain the whole situation via text. “I clearly had an ethical obligation to communicate with her, [but] I needed to do it in a way that she was going to be receptive to," says Wade, a member of the American Counseling Association who also works in a group counseling practice and is working toward her doctorate. "We had a discussion about the lack of confidentiality regarding [texting] and my uneasiness about it, but the fact of the matter was, I had to do what was in the best interest of my client. And in that situation, it was to text and calm her down that way." Counseling Today (Oct 2011) "Finding Technology's Role in the Counseling Relationship."
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