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What Counseling Precautions Are We Taking?

Discover if your church is keeping your counseling ministry safe from sexual temptation with this free assessment.
posted 9/08/2008

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What Counseling Precautions Are We Taking?

What Counseling Precautions Are We Taking?

Keeping your counseling ministry safe from sexual temptation.

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Have we adopted a policy prohibiting any male leader from counseling privately with an unaccompanied female (that is, opposite sex counseling) unless a third person is present (preferably female)?

2
The majority of the time, do we have women counseling women?

3
Have we intalled windows in church offices, making all counseling sessions clearly visible to other staff or leaders?

4
Do we have a policy limiting counseling meetings to office hours when others are present and visible?

5
Do our couselors conduct counseling sessions or one-on-one meetings in rooms iwth an open door, so that others can clearly see everyone in the meeting?

6
Have we installed a video camera (without audio, and transmitted to a monitor in another location where a church employee can observe it) in the offices where counseling and private meetings occur?

7
Have we educated our team on the principle of transference, which occurs when a person who is being counseled projects relationships, roles, images, and experience with other people onto the counselor?

8
Do we limit counseling sessions to 45 minutes and permit no more than five counseling sessions with the same person during a calendar year?

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