Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Standards, Research, and Emerging Issues

Book Description
This book's philosophy is to equip students with the resources they need to deal effectively with the complex ethical and legal issues they will confront in practice. The author does this effectively by providing material that expands the students learning beyond the content of the professional codes of ethics to include knowledge of the more important scholarly writings in the field and by examining emerging ethical issues. The cases and discussion included in the book address very difficult ethics cases and show a ten-step model for analyzing those cases.

Book Info
Cleveland State Univ., Ohio. Textbook for upper undergraduates and graduate students on the principles underlying the ethical standards of counseling. Presents the author's nine-step model of ethical decision making for analyzing complex ethical problems. Softcover.

About the Author
Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel has taught counseling theory and research, professional ethics, and personality testing in the Counselor Education program at Cleveland State University for the last 16 years. Prior to that she was a member of the counseling psychology faculty at Boston College. She has published extensively in counseling journals, and is the author of another Brooks/Cole book, ETHICS IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: STANDARDS, RESEARCH AND EMERGING ISSUES, SECOND EDITION.


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Besides providing the ethics codes of the major professional associations, including standards for Web counseling, the author addresses the major ethical dilemmas that practitioners face in diverse settings. She covers relevant law and applies a model of ethical decision-making to the issues of competency, confidentiality in a managed care milieu, informed consent, dual relationships, nonerotic touch, and ethical responses to unethical behavior. Primarily for students and practitioners in the mental health professions, but consumers may also find the contents and Web resources helpful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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