What do you think are some of the tensions or problems that might occur when a human service worker tries to keep clear boundary lines between the professional helping relationship and a friendship with a particular client?

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• It is only natural to want the best for your client, especially when you see him or her in pain or about to make a potentially disastrous choice. If workers aren't careful to stay disciplined, they might push the client into doing something he or she wasn't ready for and might later regret and resent.
• We cannot always keep confidentially in the professional relationship if we feel the client may harm him or herself or someone else.
• Often in the small agency we share dinners, birthdays and other social kind of events with our clients. Often we live in the same communities. It can be very hard not to cross the line and become involved with them in other aspects of their lives or our lives.

What Do You Think Are Some of the Tensions or Problems