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Mental health professionals face many complex questions in the course of their work with clients and patients. Among the most difficult are dilemmas that involve ethical issues. This book presents a forthright exploration of these dilemmas and the ethical considerations they raise. Drawing on extensive interviews, the author identifies common ethical problems that practitioners encounter. What happens, for example, when personal interests intrude into therapy? How can the therapist make an accurate assessment of his or her appropriateness as a care provider for a particular patient? What about confidentiality? How are problematic financial arrangements best addressed? The author goes on to show how these dilemmas may be intensified by the unique assumptions of different therapeutic orientations--individual, group, family, marital, and organizational--and how professionals can learn from such experiences to better understand and apply their particular approach. This analysis--and the words of the therapists themselves--provide both a guide to practice and a unique store of experience for the growing number of researchers and students concerned with ethical problems in psychotherapy.

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• Introduction(p. 3)
• 1 Ethical Dilemmas in Everyday Practice(p. 6)
• 2 Ethics and Negative Effects of Psychotherapies(p. 30)
• 3 Ideologies of Psychotherapies and the Values of Psychotherapists(p. 43)
• 4 Ethical Challenges of Individual Psychotherapy(p. 60)
• 5 Ethical Issues of Group and Dyadic Therapies: A Comparative Approach(p. 74)
• 6 The Ethical Minefield of Marital and Family Therapies(p. 90)
• 7 Ethical Issues in Organizational Therapy(p. 106)
• 8 Legal and Ethical Issues(p. 122)
• 9 Where We Are Now, Where We Go from Here(p. 140)
• References(p. 151)
• Index(p. 165)

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CHOICE Review

In this book, the author confuses treatment issues with ethical issues. Lakin is not alone in so doing, and he quotes numerous sources that commit the same error. Until data exist that specify, with some clarity, what therapies work for what disorders, it is inappropriate even to suggest that one technique should be used for a particular problem. To go further and to suggest that it might be unethical or illegal to use the wrong therapy or technique in a particular situation is not helpful in sorting out the very real ethical and legal dilemmas that confront practicing therapists. However, Lakin's discussion of current legal rulings and legal issues is useful for both the practicing clinician or for advanced readers with an interest in becoming therapists, especially given the litigious society in which we exist. Each act in therapy must be questioned to determine, with our limited wisdom, whether the act(s) are therapeutically sound, ethically right, and legally safe. -M. W. York, University of New Haven

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Martin Lakin is at Duke University.