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Examples of dual relationship {Ans: -Counseling a friend, family member or someone known to the therapist - Providing individual therapy to two members of the same household - Providing simultaneous individual and group therapy - Entering a business relationship with a client Entering a social relationship with a client - Hiring a patient to do work for the therapist - Bartering goods or services to pay for therapy - Supporting the patient's isolation from social support systems - Increasing dependency on the therapist.}Act of commission {Ans: Professionals make mistakes such as incorrectly diagnosis someone}To err is human {Ans: provides several means for reducing medical errors, such as: 1) Establishing a national focus to create leadership, research, tools, and protocols to enhance the knowledge base about safety; 2) Identifying and learning from errors by developing a nationwide public mandatory reporting system and by encouraging health care organizations and practitioners to develop and participate in voluntary reporting systems; 3) Raising performance standards and expectations for improvements in safety through the actions of oversight organizations, professional groups, and group purchasers of health care, and 4) Implementing safety systems in health care organizations to en-sure safe practices at the delivery level.}Three