Nothing puts off a helping professional than clients who have all manners of excuses as to why they miss scheduled sessions for their children. They tend to forget that, the professional is interested in helping the children and nothing more. As a helping professional, it reaches a time when one should 'let go' when it comes to helping such clients. As an intern at SAFFT, dealing with uncooperative parents is one of the major challenges. In that sense, I will let them go because they have consistently ignored putting the advice of professionals that is fundamental to their children into practice. Becoming increasingly frustrated with actions from clients is hard and calls for one to be compassionate and patient, besides being supportive and encouraging as possible. When the patience is overextended, the only solution left is to let go the client. However, as Aggett, Swainson & Tapsell (2015) observes, helping professional can opt to try engage the parents in a way that will show them the need to cooperate for the sake of their children.
In the event releasing a certain client serves as a major boost to the mental state of a helping professional it is allowed. It is not always that reunification happens between the children and their parents. However, considering that I am an intern at SAFFT, which serves to protect children, empower and rebuild families, I am bound by ethical responsibility. According to Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals, under ‘responsibility to self’, human service experts are supposed to strive to establish and maintain healthy personal growth that ensures they are capable of providing optimal services the clients need. In that sense, whenever they find that they are emotionally, physically or psychologically unable to offer the needed services, they are bound by ethics to refer clients to alternative professionals that will help them.
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References
National Organization of Human Services. Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals. Retrieved from <https://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical- standards-for-hs-professionals>
Aggett, P., Swainson, M. & Tapsell, D. (2015). ‘Seeking permission’: an interviewing stance for finding connection with hard to reach families. Journal of Family Therapy 37: 190–209
