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Hypothetical and ethical brain teaser for your consideration:
A practicing and well respected psychologist is in therapy. They endorse to their respective therapist that they have been a functioning abuser of substances for the entirety of their practicing career. How might the clinician handle this from a duty to report perspective? I understand this might vary based on the jurisdiction, but... Is knowledge of a clinician actively abusing substances warrant further action? Per the ethics code in terms of how certain things are worded, I imagine that this might fall under some form of problematic practice. The other kicker, does the fact that in this hypothetical the client is what we would consider "functioning" and successful in their own respective practice, does that change things?
A practicing and well respected psychologist is in therapy. They endorse to their respective therapist that they have been a functioning abuser of substances for the entirety of their practicing career. How might the clinician handle this from a duty to report perspective? I understand this might vary based on the jurisdiction, but... Is knowledge of a clinician actively abusing substances warrant further action? Per the ethics code in terms of how certain things are worded, I imagine that this might fall under some form of problematic practice. The other kicker, does the fact that in this hypothetical the client is what we would consider "functioning" and successful in their own respective practice, does that change things?