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In Professional Ethics: Power and Paradox [17], I proposed that the power of the professional person is morally relevant to determining what should be done in the practice setting and that justice or empowerment of the client becomes a central norm for professional practice.1 The time has now come to see what justice as empowerment means for the clinical setting. The task is particularly crucial in light of Kapp’s recent definition of empowerment as advocating for oneself and participating maximally in one’s own significant decisions ([14], p. 5). Under this definition, to choose dependence upon others is to “forego” empowerment ([14], p. 6). I will explore below the adequacy of this definition.
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Lebacqz, K. (1994). Empowerment in the Clinical Setting. In: McKenny, G.P., Sande, J.R. (eds) Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter. Theology and Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8386-2_7
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