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NCA Associates New Blog!

NCA Associates is excited to enter the world of blogging with its first blog Navigating Professional Boundaries: The Issue of Trust. I look forward to your comments!

Navigating Professional Boundaries: The Issue of Negative Feelings towards a Client

Recently a paper featured this headline, “Judge refused to let lawyer drop “despised” client” (Globe & Mail March 2012). While interesting reading generally, in part the article raised two critical questions; what is the impact on the professional/client relationship when … Continue reading →

Tagged maintaining professional boundaries, professional boundaries

Navigating Professional Boundaries: Responsibility to Clients in a For-Profit Environment

From my archive of newspaper clippings comes this headline, “Plastic surgery scandal rocks France” (Globe & Mail Dec 2011). The article goes on to say, “Tens of thousands of women complain that their lives are a living hell after being … Continue reading →

Tagged code of ethics for doctors, doctor code of ethics, doctor ethics, ethics professional, medical doctor ethics, medical ethics, non-profit ethics, professional ethics

Navigating Professional Boundaries: The Issue of Personal Bias

From my archive of newspaper clippings comes this headline; “Panel criticizes judges for failure to hand out predictable punishments untainted by personal views” (Globe & Mail Dec 2010). While admittedly it is nearly impossible to be completely neutral or unbiased, … Continue reading →

Tagged organizational policy, professional boundaries, professional obligations, professional relationship, professional/client relationship

Navigating Professional Boundaries: Where “the Rules” and Human Behaviour Intersect

As professionals our prime mandate is to protect the public interest. And we need to maintain the public trust that we are in fact keeping their needs primary. Considering human factors that come into play at any given point in any given professional/client relationship. As the professional, do we know “the rules”? As the professional, do we recognize the times that we need assistance? Continue reading →

Tagged codes of ethics, Expected professional behaviours, Maintaining the public trust, professional behaviour, professional boundaries, professional boundary violations, professional decisions, professional rules, professional/client relationship, protect the public interest, standards of practice and policies

Navigating Professional Boundaries: The Issue of Trust

I speak, write and provide training on professional boundaries and have done for a number of years. The article prompted the writing of this blog as I do not believe that we talk enough about the issue of trust in any professional/client relationship. Rather we should keep foremost in our professional thinking that clients give or place their trust in us. Continue reading →