Multiple Relationships Discussion

Multiple Relationships
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Multiple Relationships
Multiple relationships are established when a psychologist has a working relationship with someone and is also in another relationship with that same individual, or is in connection with someone who is strongly linked with or associated to the individual with whom the psychologist has a professional relationship (American Psychological Association, 2017). In this case, Dr. Green is a psychologist who practices in a small town. However, Dr. Green knows Mr. Jones from the neighborhood, and they both go to the same church, implying multiple connections. On the other hand, numerous relationships that are unlikely to produce impairment or risk manipulation or injury are not unethical.
If the multiple relationships can be assumed to hamper the psychologist's ra...