Main description:

Relational Ethics in Practice presents a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice. Highly experienced professionals from a range of roles in the therapeutic professions explore ways of developing ethical and effective relationships. The contributors provide the reader with engaging and informative narratives that indicate how ethics can inform and influence practice in a variety of clinical contexts across the helping professions. These personal and professional narratives will encourage people to think more proactively about ethics and the impact that they have on both therapeutic practice, and life in general.

Throughout this book, Lynne Gabriel, Roger Casemore and their contributors emphasise that the consideration of the ethical dimension is of paramount importance to successful processes and outcomes in every therapeutic relationship. Chapters cover a number of topics including:

how theoretical approaches can inform ethical decision making and practice
practical difficulties and ethical challenges
innovative and unconventional approaches
informed consent across various contexts
pointers for good practice
the notion of the 'wounded healer'.

Relational Ethics in Practice: Narratives from Counselling and Psychotherapy will appeal to a wide range of readers involved in the helping professions including counsellors, psychotherapists, researchers, supervisors and trainees.

Contents:

Gabriel, Casemore, Introduction. Gabriel, Relational Ethics, Boundary Riders and Process Sentinels: Allies for Ethical Practice. Casemore, Relational Ethics as a Way of Being. Balick, Relational Ethics Beyond the Sex and Gender Binary: An Integrative Relational Approach. Wosket, Relational Ethics in Supervision. Etherington, Ethical Research in Reflexive Relationships: A Dialogical Process. Neath, Relational Ethics: A Perspective After the Essays and Marking. Dave, Relational Ethics in Psychiatric Settings. Jenkins, Therapy as Evidence: Legal Perspectives on the relationship Between Therapist and Client. Dunnett, The Role of Practitioner Self-care in Practitioner-client Relationship Ethics. West, Training Matters: On the Way In. Casemore, Relational Ethics in Small Communities and Organisations. Gabriel, Exploring the Researcher-contributor Research Alliance. Tudway, Relational Ethics from a Cognitive Behavioural Perspective. Walker, Counselling Survivors of Abuse: Feminism, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Ethics. Gabriel, Experiencing the Edge: Relationships with Self and Others in Times of Intense or Enduring Trauma.