 Now, we will discuss some Making Role Blending Decisions. It is believed that Role Blending is responsible for significant part of therapists' most effective or careless decisions or actions. Role conflict arise when expectations in one role involve actions or behaviors that are incompatible with another role. This is very sensitive because human beings perform in different roles and when one role's compatibility is incompatible with another role, then it is a little challenging to take the decisions of Role Blending. Let's say if we talk about that an individual who is a mental health professional is treating a young teenage girl who is coming with a self-harm complaint and she has a lot of negative thoughts about self or negative self-image. She is giving treatment and while giving treatment, she has her own daughter who is of the same age and she is also seeing her as a father. She is telling her as a father that your parents are very good to you, they love you, they provide you with a lot of resources, you are studying in the best school, you have a lot of privileges. Basically, the role she is sharing with her is the role she is sharing with her as a father's role. So at times, sometimes it becomes very difficult to understand the negative person who is sitting in front of you and her parents are probably not the same or she is not perceiving them. So the role's incompatibility can create a lot of problems in understanding. Three guidelines could be used to assess the amount of damage which is being created by the role blending. First, as the expectation of professionals and those they serve become more incompatible, the potential of harm increases. Second, as obligations associated with the roles become divergent. Now, every individual has a role assigned to them and their obligations are different. If I explain you in a very simple word, if we talk about a mother-daughter relationship, we assume that a daughter will be protected by the mother and a mother will be protected by the mother. So we assume that a daughter will be protected by the mother and a mother will be protected by the mother. And a mother will take care of her daughter, her sleep, her food, her education. But if we look at this role from a different angle, if the mother is mentally compromised, if there is a mental health problem, there is a borderline personality, there is a bipolar patient, then they cannot care for their daughter. In fact, this role will change and they are the daughter who is supposed to take care of the mother. So when we talk about roles, they can be very divergent and the expectations related to them can also be different. So risk of loss of objectivity and divided loyalty arise. Here, this problem is created that how much of a loyal role can you take on that role? How much of a teenage girl, a 12-13-14 year old girl can take care of her mentally sick mother? It depends. Because it depends on the loyalty which is divided and not everyone can expect the same thing. Then third, when the power and prestige of the therapist exceed that of the client, the possibility of exploitation is heightened. Now this is very important to understand that if we look at it, a therapist is very powerful, has a lot of community name, has suggestions of therapies, has a holy word, if there is any kind of role blending, then most people won't believe that a therapist can do something wrong. So here also a lot of problems can be created because we think of big names, we don't expect them to make a mistake. Then the goal of an ethical decision is not to avoid any or all violation of boundaries because it is impossible. If we talk that there can't be any role blending, there can't be any people's loyalties that can't be divided, then it will be impossible. But instead the goal is that to stay on the more safe end of the spectrum where the misuse and exploitation of the therapist's power is kept to be minimum. Our only effort is to try to understand these roles as clearly as possible. And to perform them in a new way so that an empowered therapist doesn't have a lot of negativity on the client's life because of any mistake. In fact, he can be a part of his therapeutic relationship and take a safe exit from it.