##  [Boundary Violation](/boundary-violation) 

  ##  [Boundary Violation](https://health.quantumdictionary.io/boundary-violation-0) 

  

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Definition

A clinician’s transgression of professionally established limits in a therapeutic relationship that uses the clinician’s role, authority, or access to exploit, advantage, or harm a patient — for example by engaging in sexual relations, inappropriate financial transactions, or other actions that substitute the clinician’s personal interests for professional duties.