Tag: do no harm

Do No Harm is a Captivity Care clinical ethic requiring helping professionals to examine not only intended benefit but the actual effects of authority, intervention, interpretation, rupture, disclosure, boundary response, and termination on the survivor’s usable freedom and capacity.

Good intention does not erase consequential harm, and professional authority does not exempt the helping relationship from examination when care reproduces mechanisms of captivity.

  • Captivity Care

    Humility, reverence, and clinical care after captivity This is an evolving field publication. Captivity Care is developing as the clinical and relational implications of the Captivity-Informed Framework continue to be articulated. This teaching may expand as additional applications, distinctions, and…

  • The Survivor Should Not Subsidize the Failure of Care

    When care fails, the consequences do not distribute themselves evenly. A therapeutic relationship ruptures. A clinician makes a consequential error. Supervision fails. An institution mishandles a report. Care ends without adequate continuity. A professional boundary is crossed. The person receiving…

  • The Clean Container

    Care requires relationship. A clinician cannot offer meaningful relational care while remaining entirely detached. A pastor cannot accompany suffering without being affected. An advocate may feel anger at injustice. A friend may grieve. A helper may experience tenderness, protectiveness, sorrow,…