Yesterday Dr. Harper, the clinic supervisor, accidently found out that one of the psychologists on his staff is gay. The information was not included on the psychologist's application for employment, nor was anything said in the pre-employment interview to clearly indicate the doctor's sexual orientation. What should Dr. Harper do now with regard to the new information?

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A psychologist's sexual orientation is the psychologist's own personal business. Presumably the psychologist already knows not to allow it to also become the client's business and not to enter it into the therapist-client relationship in any way. Unless there is reasonable cause to indicate otherwise, the supervisor should simply continue applying the same level of supervision to the gay psychologist as to any other psychologist on staff.