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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This case is not a matter of two consensual adults. It is not a matter of a lack of professionalism. Nor is it simply the matter of a husband scorned.

Rather, based on the facts reported in the news and this document (http://www.scribd.com/doc/55276950/Sidwell-Lawsuit), Dr. Huntington seems to have violated many aspects of the APA ethics code which ALL psychologists must strive to uphold. This is equivalent to medical doctors violating their Hippocratic Oath or the medical ethics code. It is astounding that Sidwell Friends allowed this unethical behavior to continue and looked the other way at the risk of the well-being of other students who may have been treated by Dr Huntington, who engaged in a sexual relationship with the client's mother at the risk of competently performing his job, and exploiting and harming the client. This is equivalent to looking away if a medical doctor was exploiting and harming a client. In line with their stated goals and values, Sidwell Friends had a duty to consult another psychologist or the APA ethics board to resolve the issue in a manner with the highest integrity and care for the student. In line with the price of tuition parents pay, Sidwell Friends has the highest duty to hire the most top notch child psychologist for their students; individuals with high integrity, high quality training and clinical skill and care for their students. Clearly, they did not.

Violation 1: AVOIDING HARM: Psychologists take reasonable steps to avoid harming
their clients/patients with whom they
work, and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable.

Violation 2: SEXUAL INTIMACIES: Psychologists do not engage in sexual intimacies with
individuals they know to be close relatives, guardians, or significant others of current clients/patients. [b]Psychologists do
not terminate therapy to circumvent this standard.[/b]

Violation 3:PERSONAL CONFLICTS: Psychologists[b] refrain[/b] from taking on a professional
role when personal, scientific, professional, legal, financial, or
other interests or relationships could reasonably be expected
to (1) impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in
performing their functions as psychologists or (2) expose the
person or organization with whom the professional relation-
ship exists to [b]harm or exploitation [/b]

Violation 4: MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS:
(a) A multiple relationship occurs when a psycholo-
gist is in a professional role with a person and (1) at the same
time is in another role with the same person...
A psychologist refrains from entering into a multiple
relationship if the multiple relationship could reasonably be
expected to [b]impair the psychologist’s objectivity, compe-
tence, or effectiveness in performing his or her functions as
a psychologist, or otherwise risks exploitation or harm to the
person with whom the professional relationship exists.[/b]

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Are any of those involved in this scandal still associated with the school?  [/quote]

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