Question

Case Study

Eloise is a high school counselor who is presently experiencing a traumatic personal crisis. Her only son was killed in a drive-by shooting. Many of the students in her school are gang members. She becomes aware of increasing countertransference and at times has an impulse to lash out at some of her student counselees. Eloise is frequently overcome by grief and is aware that her effectiveness as a counselor is severely impaired. Eloise confides in her colleague, Peter, all the ways she is being negatively affected by the death of her son. Peter is supportive and recommends that she seeks professional counseling. She does not follow through on this recommendation. Peter is made aware that some of her counselees are being negatively affected by her impairment.

What ethical responsibility does Peter have in this case? How would you deal with Eloise?

Answer 1

Peter has is suffering from trauma but she thinks that she has responsibility towards school and children . Her ethics is that she is going to do the counseling of the students ,and try to make them clean as most of the students are gang members . Her ethical responsbility is to do her job because she cannot avoid her work and this will effect more students . And even her imparment is having a negative effect on student ,so she is trying to fight against the truma and is helping the students because she does not want firing to happen again.

And talking about she needs some time to come out of this . And some rest would be good for her and of she come go to psychologist for few season than it would be good for her . Or she can take a small vacation which will heal her mind .