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When professional help meets client resistance

I am a social worker and I believe a family I work with would benefit from services they do not want and I am struggling with how much I can push without crossing ethical lines.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between professional expertise and client autonomy reveals how helping can become a form of power that must be carefully constrained by respect for self-determination.

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