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Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest

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Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation
Laliberté and Hudon compare conflicts of interest that arise between physical therapists and worker's compensation to those arising between sports medicine physicians and the athletes they treat. Both types of clinicians find themselves caught between offering the best treatment to their individual clients and the need to answer to the needs of the organization. Conflicts of type and length of treatments arise as well as opportunities to behave unethically that may eventually result in a new norm for the entire profession.
-When worker's compensation or athletic organizations request detailed information on the patient's progress, ethical principles such as ___________ are compromised.

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Definitions:

Directive Approach

A style of therapy or counseling where the therapist provides strong guidance and advice to the client.

Empathize

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, putting oneself in someone else’s shoes emotionally.

Systematic Desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique used to reduce phobic reactions and anxiety through gradual exposure to the feared object or situation.

Transference

A phenomenon in psychotherapy where the feelings, desires, and expectations of a patient towards significant people in their life are unconsciously redirected or applied to the therapist.