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My ethical responsibilities when addressing IPV in couples include a thorough disclosure of the limits of confidentiality, specifically as they pertain to my knowledge of potential harm to the client or another person (CCPA, 2021). Additionally, understanding the ethical limits of duel relationships with the couple as clients together and the potential of seeing clients individually.

While domestic violence is a global issue and transcends many demographic differences, cultures which have a negative, masculine construct of gender roles tend to have higher rates of IPV (Mshweshwe, 2020). An unconscious bias that I need to be careful of is the fact that men can be the victims of domestic violence as well. I logically know this is possible, and fully empathize with men whom I have met in this situation. With that said, there is still a brief moment of shock when I hear about male victims of IPV.

Within Canada there are four main categories of IPV: physical, sexual, psychological and stalking (Stewart et al., 2020). Stalking IPV includes watching/following, repeated phone or electronic messages, spying, leaving gifts or threats, or damage of property. This is not a form of IPV I would have considered. How would you support a client experiencing this form of IPV?