You have been providing monthly consultation services to the same rural counseling agency from the previous discussion’s scenario. After five months, it is going well. The agency staff members give you positive feedback and are very appreciative of your work. The agency director approaches you before your sixth visit and says you have been so helpful that she would deeply appreciate your assistance in two matters.
She would like you to be a co-therapist with one of the staff and jointly have a session with one of the agency’s most difficult chronic clients.
She also asks if you would assist her to intervene with one of their staff members who has become increasingly depressed and inefficient at work ever since his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.
How will you respond? Frame your response by analyzing the nature of your role as consultant and the legal and ethical obligation therein.
