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More About This Title Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, Third Edition
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Melba J. T. Vasquez received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Texas, and is a psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas. She served on the APA Ethics Committee, the APA Ethics Committee Task Force for Revision of 1992 Ethics Code, and APA Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility. She has taught graduate courses in ethics, counseling and psychotherapy, and multicultural issues in psychology. She is past president of the APA Society for the Psychology of Women and has won numerous awards including the 2000 Distinguished Leader for Women in Psychology.
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Preface.
1. Helping Without Hurting: Personal Responsibility, Constant Questioning, and Basic Assumptions.
2. Ethics and Critical Thinking.
3. Trust, Power, and Caring.
4. Competence and the Human Therapist.
5. Creating Strategies for Self-Care.
6. Creating a Professional Will.
7. Codes and Complaints in Context: Historical, Empirical, and Actuarial, Foundations.
8. Responding to Ethics, Licensing, or Malpractice Complaints.
9. Steps in Ethical Decision Making.
10. Beginnings and Endings, Absences and Accessibility.
11. Informed Consent and Informed Refusal.
12. Assessment, Testing, and Diagnosis.
13. Sexual Relationships with Clients.
14. Nonsexual Multiple Relationships and Other Boundary Issues.
15. Culture, Context, and Individual Differences.
16. Confidentiality.
17. Responding to Suicidal Risk.
18. The Supervisory Relationship.
Appendix A. American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
Appendix B. Canadian Psychological Association Code of Ethics for Psychologists.
Appendix C. American Psychological Association Committee on Legal Issue Strategies for Private Practitioners Coping with Subpoenas or Compelled Testimony for Client Records or Test Data.
Appendix D. American Psychological Association Statement on Services by Telephone, Teleconferencing, and Internet.
Appendix E. Patients' Mental Health Rights.
Appendix F. Ethical Guidelines for Professional Care in a Managed Care Environment.
Appendix G. Ethics Codes and Practice Guidelines for Assessment, Therapy, Counseling, and Forensic Practice.
References.
About the Authors.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
