Sex, Supervision, and boundary violations: Pressing challenges and possible solutions

Clinical Supervisor

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-19

  Koenig, Terry L ^a   Spano, Richard N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary violations; Educators and students; Fiduciary relationships; Psychodynamic theory; Sexuality; Supervision

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248611360     PISSN: 07325223     EISSN: 1545231X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J001v22n01_02     Document Type: Article

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