E-grāmata: Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: A Proactive Approach

Now in its second edition, Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals is an insightful exploration of psychotherapeutic ethics for practitioners and students of the discipline. Readers will learn to strengthen and develop their core professional and ethical identities while learning to avoid some of the most common pitfalls professionals face when they make decisions.

This guide offers positive discussions, exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments to help readers develop the self-reflective skills they'll need to make excellent ethical decisions in psychotherapy and counseling settings.

Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: A Proactive Approach, Second Edition explores:

Knowing your own ethical character and the context in which you make decisions, including privilege, discrimination, oppression, and social justice

The nuts and bolts of psychotherapy ethics, including patient and therapist boundaries, confidentiality, informed consent to treatment, and concluding the psychotherapeutic relationship

A renewed focus on readers' core ethical identities, as well as a new discussion of "tripping points," or predictable pitfalls in making ethical choices

Develop a practical and comprehensive view of professional ethics

In the newly updated Second Edition of Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals: A Proactive Approach, distinguished psychologists Drs. Sharon K. Anderson and Mitchell M Handelsman deliver an insightful guide for mental health professionals and trainees to stregthen and/or develop their professional and ethical identities.

Utilizing the same informal and inviting tone of the first edition, Anderson and Handelsman share the literature and provide positive discussions, exercises, case scenarios, and writing assignments, to help you explore and develop your ethical core. You'll also develop your self-reflective skills to learn how to make excellent ethical choices regarding psychotherapy and couseling.

This edition of the book also offers:

• An introduction of the idea of "tripping points", or predictable pitfalls, when making ethical choices.
• Discussions of nonrational factors in ethical decision-making, including biases, heuristics, and emotional influences.
• A renewed focus on ethical acculturation, which emphasizes the importance of your own background in the development of your ethical identity.

Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students studying psychotherapy and mental health counseling, Positive Ethics for Mental Health Professionals, will also earn a place in the libraries of mental health practitioners seeking a primer on the complicated ethical issues that inevitably arise in their practices- and how to prepare for them and navigate them.