Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals : A Comprehensive Handbook of Principles and Standards

ISBN-13: 9780789027290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 464 str.

Steven F. Bucky; Joanne E. Callan; Comp George Stricker

Opis

Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: A Comprehensive Handbook of Principles and Standards details the ethical and legal issues that involve mental health professionals. Respected authorities with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and professional experience discuss in depth ethical principles and standards such as competence, confidentiality, informed consent, integrity, responsibility, welfare of others, duty to warn and much more. This informative handbook provides invaluable up-to-date information and guidelines vital for every mental health professional.
* Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: A Comprehensive Handbook of Principles and Standards is the first of three volumes under this title. The following volumes will focus on forensic settings and special populations/special treatment modalities.

Spis treści

• About the Contributors
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Foreword (Robert Geffner)
  
• INTRODUCTION
  
• Ethics Law and Licensing (George Stricker and Steven F. Bucky)
  
• GENERAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
  
• An Historical Overview of Basic Approaches and Issues in Ethical and Moral Philosophy and Principles: A Foundation for Understanding Ethics in Psychology (Joanne E. Callan and Megan E. Callan)
  
• Competence (Thomas F. Nagy)
  
• The Practice of Integrity for Mental Health Professionals (David Mills)
  
• Professional and Scientific Responsibility: Integrity (Rodney L. Lowman)
  
• Respect for People’s Rights and Dignity (Rodney L. Lowman)
  
• The Concerned Mental Health Practitioner: Welfare of Others (Charles Clark)
  
• Social Responsibility and the Mental Health Professions (Erica H. Wise)
  
• CONFIDENTUALITY PRIVILEGE, CONSENT, AND PROTECTION
  
• Informed Consent (Muriel Golub)
  
• Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality (O. Brandt Caudill and Alan I. Kaplan)
  
• Therapist-Patient Privilege: Who Owns the Privilege? (Alan Kaplan)
  
• Tarasoff and the Duty to Protect (Simone Simone and Solomon M. Fulero)
  
• GENERAL ETHICAL STANDARDS IN PRACTICE
  
• Misuse of Psychologist Influence: Multiple Relationships (Clark R. Clipson)
  
• Sexual Contact between Psychologists and Patients (Natalie Shavit)
  
• Bartering (Ronald Gandolfo)
  
• Requirements and Implementation of Maintaining Patient Records: The Mental Health Professional’s Best Protection (O. Brandt Caudill, Jr.)
  
• How a Mental Health Professional Handles Referrals and Fees (Alan Kaplan)
  
• ETHICS IN TEACHING
  
• Ethics and Legal Considerations in the Training of Mental Health Professionals (Thomas McGee)
  
• Ethics in the Teaching of Mental Health Professionals (Joanne E. Callan and Steven F. Bucky)
  
• Ethics in Research (Julian Meltzoff)
  
• Ethics in Publication (Julian Meltzoff)
  
• APPENDICES
  
• Ethics Codes of Major Mental Health Professionl Associations
  
• Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (National Association of Social Workers, 1999)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Steven F Bucky, Joanne E Callan, George Stricker