Main description:

Clinicians face ethical dilemmas every day, issues that fall into the gray areas of a mental health practice. This book provides guidance on the ethical responsibilities that confront mental health professionals. The Fourth Edition has been updated with the latest guidelines and trends in the areas of privacy, confidentiality, ethical responsibilities and legal requirements, including new rule changes in the American Psychological Association's Ethics Codes for various specialties. Timely coverage explores the ethical questions surrounding email and social media communications between therapist and client. A must for today's psychologists, therapists, counselors and students of psychology.

Contents:

Preface. 1. What Do I Do Now? 2. Ethics in Real Life. 3. Ethics and Critical Thinking. 4. Trust, Power, and Caring. 5. Therapy in the Digital World: Ethical Challenges of the New Technologies. 6. Competence and the Human Therapist. 7. Creating Strategies for Self-Care. 8. Creating a Professional Will. 9. Codes and Complaints in Context: Historical, Empirical, and Actuarial Foundations. 10. Responding to Ethics, Licensing, or Malpractice Complaints. 11. Steps in Ethical Decision Making. 12. Different Conclusions: Example from the Interrogation Controversy. 13. Beginnings and Endings, Absence and Access. 14. Informed Consent and Informed Refusal. 15. Assessment, Testing, and Diagnosis. 16. Sexual Relationships with Clients. 17. Nonsexual Multiple Relationships and Other Boundary Issues. 18. Culture, Context, and Individual Differences. 19. Confidentiality. 20. Recognizing, Assessing, and Responding to Suicidal Risk. 21. Supervision. APPENDICES. A. American Psychological Association: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Amended, 2010). B. Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, Third Edition. C. Ethics Codes & Practice Guidelines for Assessment, Therapy, Counseling, & Forensic Practice. REFERENCES. ABOUT THE AUTHORS. Author Index. Subject Index.