Hold the frame after a romantic invitation — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are the psychiatry registrar in an outpatient clinic. [1]

Candidate instructions. Your patient is offering an expensive gift, expressing romantic love, and inviting you to dinner. Maintain rapport, thank them for the honesty of the disclosure, decline dual-relationship and romantic invitations clearly, explain professional boundaries in accessible language, explore the meaning of the offer, check for feelings of rejection, reaffirm ongoing care inside the frame, and agree a plan. Do not lecture, mock, flirt, or leave the patient abandoned. Do not invent statute numbers. [1][2][3]