what inappropriate behaviour have you dealt with your clients?

Answer 1

I have seen all kinds of things, especially when I worked in inpatient.

I have had female clients "come on" to me. One very flirtatious female client made me so nervous my hands were obviously shaking; she said "you make me nervous too, but in a good way."

I am like 6 foot one, but there was this out of control guy with schizophrenia who was bigger than me. One time he grabbed me around the neck and I had to just stand there while a group of staff got him to let me go.

One guy keep saying "I need an I.D." I said "ask your social worker." When I went out of the ward door he took my picture ID. Staff had to help me get it back. Then everytime I was on the ward he always said "I need an ID" and I would hang on to it so he couldn't get it. Then once he said "Let me see it, just hold it out in your hand." I did as he asked and he said "Now, was that so hard?"

Another guy took my sunglasses and wouldn't give them back until other staff talked him into it.

One guy told me "you'd better shave and get cleaned up or you're not going to work for me."

One guy asked me "Do you have a college degree?" I did, but I decided to say "No." Then he said "I didn't think so. You don't look very intelligent."

Once a female client kept saying she needed to go the bathroom. The staff didn't listen to her because she didn't need any help, all she had to do was find a bathroom and use it. But then she dropped pants and urinated right there on the floor.

We had another female client who tried to flush her chart down the toilet. I had to take her file back to medical records and dry it out. When she came back to the hospital, they would hide her chart from her, but then she did the same thing with a chart of another patient. After that, we always hid all the charts whenever she came back.

Answer 2

I've had clients to ask me out. I made up a boyfriend and declined.

I had a chair thrown through the receptionist window. I escorted waiting clients into a side office and called the police.

I had a 300 pound man refuse to leave my office. I called security to have him removed.

I've been threatened numerous times.

But I keep going back.

Answer 3

when working with kids, at an inpatient psych hospital it was a regular incidence to get attacked, however some of the worse things were getting spit on in the face, and having a young boy smear feces all over the time-out room

Answer 4

I'm actually the "client", I hope to heck I never have put my therapist in that situation, and hopefully never will. I have way to much respect for him, and everything he has done for me.

Answer 5

massaging me out of the blue!!, really strange.