“…All mental health professionals should be concerned about risk-management behaviors for the following reasons: - The threat or actual filing of a complaint or a malpractice suit can be extremely stressful and emotionally exhausting. This can produce difficulties for the practitioners in both their professional and personal lives (Smith, 1994). Schoenfeld, Hatch, and Gonzalez (2001) found that psychologists going through the complaint process reported a variety of problems, including depression, significant anxiety and anger, sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction, marital dysfunction, emergence of physical symptoms and medical problems, and interpersonal difficulties.
- A complaint or suit can be time-consuming (Montgomery, Cupit, & Wimberley, 1999).
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