Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Vasquez, Melba Jean Trinidad.

Description

1. xvi, 382 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling is based upon the premise that ethics are neither vague and lofty aspirations unrelated to the daily practicalities of the helping professions nor unvarying and coercive rules that preempt professionals' decisions and control their actions.

Subject

1. Counseling
2. Counseling > Moral and ethical aspects
3. Counseling psychologist and client
4. Counseling psychologists > Professional ethics
5. Counseling psychology > Moral and ethical aspects
6. Counselor and client
7. Counselors > Professional ethics
8. Ethics, Professional
9. Psychotherapists > Professional ethics
10. Psychotherapy
11. Psychotherapy > Moral and ethical aspects

Contents

1. Helping without hurting : enhancing ethical awareness -- Ethical and legal codes and complaints : historical, actuarial, and empirical foundations -- Trust, power, and caring -- Common misperceptions that interfere with ethical practice -- The human therapist -- Asking questions : a case study in questioning claims from the recovered memory controversy -- Beginnings and endings, absences and accessibility -- Informed consent and informed refusal -- Assessment, testing, and diagnosis -- Sexual relationships with clients -- Nonsexual multiple relationships -- Cultural, contextual, and individual differences -- Maintaining and waiving confidentiality -- Responding to suicidal risk -- The supervisory relationship. Appendixes. Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct -- Patients' mental health rights -- Ethical guidelines for professional care in a managed care environment -- Sample informed consent form.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain