Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dual relationships are o f concern to professional therapists.All professional regulatory bodies caution their members to avoid dual relationships with their clients: it is a matter of ethical boundaries.However, it is now also acknowledged that in small and rural communities dual or overlapping relationships with clients are unavoidable.The concept of dual or overlapping relationships is also of concern to professionals who work in First Nations communities.Nevertheless, like in other small or rural communities, where the counsellors live and are in constant interaction with the clients, dual relationships in First Nations Communities do occur.Using a phenomenological approach, this study explores First Nations women clients' experiences of dual relationships with alcohol and drug abuse counsellors indigenous to the clients' communities.The goal of this study was to provide a description o f the nature of this experience from First Nations women clients' perspectives.Descriptive data for the study was gathered through conversations with three Firsts Nations women who live in rural communities in British Columbia and Alberta.The essence of the First Nations women clients' experiences o f dual relationships, with alcohol and drug abuse counsellors indigenous to the clients' communities, was a "movement from a therapeutic relationship to an enduring relationship."In this process, the clients experienced a sense of safety and encouragement to move forward.The participants described feeling safe because the counsellors were confidential, nonjudgmental, empathie, and equitable.The participants experienced the m "encouragement to move forward" due to their counsellors' willingness to extend themselves to engage them in the therapeutic process and due to their identification with the First Nations counsellors that enabled them to disclose deep issues.The clients were also encouraged by their counsellors' presence in the community; the counsellors' style of life became something to strive for.After the formal counselling sessions were over, the therapeutic relationships moved beyond to become enduring relationships.In this latter phase of the clients' relationships with their counsellors, the clients continued to be positively affirmed and supported by their counsellors.The character of the counsellors is most important.The clients see their counsellors as role models who offer hope by modeling alternative lifestyles.The availability o f the counselors is also seen as a benefit, it deepens the therapeutic process.Nevertheless, the power imbalance in the beginning phase o f the counsellor-client relationship is still very much an issue with the clients and this study indicates a need for boundary management initiatives in collaboration with clients in First Nation communities.A phenomenological study aims to provide insight and understanding and this study does not claim to be the final conclusion.However the study provides information that may be considered in practice situations and it may contribute to further studies on the topic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".