ABSTRACT
To assert that self-disclosure, a hug, a home visit, or accepting a gift is likely to lead to sex is like saying doctors' visits cause death because most people see a doctor before they die.
(Zur, 2002a: 47)
NON-SEXUAL CLIENT±PRACTITIONER
CONTACT
Examples of one-to-one therapy relationships that extend into other contexts and types of client±practitioner duality exist in some therapy approaches. For example, in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), contracted therapeutic work can involve contact between therapist and client outside the context and con®nes of the consulting room. A therapist might accompany the client who, for instance, is fearful of supermarket queues, to do their shopping with the aim of supporting them to overcome their fears. The therapist regards the non-consulting room contact as a taskfocused, contracted activity. Essentially, the therapy relationship and work extends beyond the `frame' (Gray, 1994) of the traditional therapy hour and consulting room context into a wider helping arena.
