Read the following example and choose the best answer. You must continue choosing until you choose the best answer.
1. A staff member comes to you with the following problem and seeks your advice. A student has been visiting the staff member's office under the guise of needing help with his/her financial aid; however, the staff member suspects that the visits are more social in nature as the student refuses all offers of actual assistance. After visiting regularly for about six weeks, the student asks the staff member to accompany him/her to a concert. The staff member would really like to accept the student's offer.
How should you handle this situation?
A) Advise the staff member to accept the offer and let the relationship progress as the professor/staff member and the student are comfortable with it progressing.
B) Advise the staff member to accept the offer but explain that he/she thinks of the student as nothing more than a friend.
C) Advise the staff member to decline the offer.
D) None of the above. |
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