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The impact of sexual intimacy between professors and students-in-training for the helping professions on trainees' responses to supervision and their therapeutic effectiveness are addressed directly by few professional organizations with which clinical supervisors are affiliated. The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (1991) code of ethics, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (1988) supervisory standard, and the American Psychological Association (1992) ethical principles prohibit such activities directly, while other codes address the issue indirectly through standards regarding dual relationships and sexual harassment. Based on parallels between counseling/therapy and clinical supervision, the unknown and unpredictable nature of supervision with any given trainee and supervisor renders the introduction of sexual intimacy into the relationship as unethical. Additional research on ethics education and specifically on the sexual-intimacy phenomenon amoung educators who train helping professionals is recommended. Also, revisions in current ethical standards are proposed.
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Larrabee et al. (1994) studied this question.
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