Is it unethical for a therapist to project their cultural values onto her client?
Mrs. Kowalczuk, 25, was working in New York until last month as a drama therapist for Project Liberty, a counseling, education and job referral program for victims of 9/11.
To provide consistency and to maintain the therapeutic relationship, residents received sessions from the same music therapist throughout the project.
Fifteen participants of the training group contacted the physical therapist of the project because of worsening of pain during training and ascribed these symptoms to previous injuries being provoked during training.
The orthopaedic surgeons are involved in drawing up the osteoarthritis guidelines, the research physical therapist and the project leader are responsible for the osteoarthritis guidelines for physical therapists, and the PhD student and promotion team are responsible for the scientific dissemination of the results.
Specialist mental health centers were motivated to provide therapists for the project, because transfer of expertise from specialized care settings to the primary care setting has high priority in Dutch health policy.
Art consultant Elain Dalcher and Cathy Ripmaster, physical therapist, implemented the Kandinsky Project, a school wide art program inspired by the famous Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky.
A total of four part-time staff are employed for the initial phase of the study including a dental therapist, employed as a project manager.
When reviewing progress, the therapist helps patients to project forwards to the future and consider what is likely to happen and how they can continue to build on what they have achieved so far.
In the first stage of the project each therapist was asked to fill in the framework for their respective treatment models outlining typical interventions, the assumed mechanisms, expected outcomes, and relevant contextual factors that may influence the outcome positively or negatively.
