Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition

"Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy has a distinct and timely focus on counseling as a profession. Chapters address the mental health professions, values in counseling, decision making, ethical principles, ethical standards, technology, ethical climate, and office/administrative practices. The early chapters present a foundation for ethical practice of the profession and provides solid building blocks to the more advanced perspectives in later chapters. Chapters on specialty practice are lively and contemporary overviews of these practice areas in counseling that reflect more recent trends to increased differentiation of these areas of practice. Each specialty has its own chapter to allow for an extended discussion of the unique aspects of the field that provide clarity to understanding the particular ethical issues and standards that apply in each specialty. The specialty areas recognized by CACREP are included: mental health counseling; school counseling; couple, marital, and family counseling; rehabilitation counseling; addictions counseling; career counseling; and group counseling. This book is broad in its coverage of the most practiced specialties in mental health practice, and provides an efficient and effective overview of the broad scope of particular areas addressed in counseling"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributor -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Share Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Fourth Edition -- Part I: Overview of Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Issues and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Objectives -- Defining Ethics -- Professional Ethics Versus Legally Mandated Ethics -- Ethics Governance -- Decision-Making Skills -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The Mental Health Professions and Counseling Specialties -- Objectives -- Counseling and Psychology: Two Closely Related but Now Distinct Mental Health Professions -- Licensing and Credentialing in the Mental Health Professions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Value Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Objectives -- Values -- Morals, Ethics, and Values -- Values in Counseling -- Values of Counselors and the Counseling Relationship -- Values, Cultural Worldviews, and Multiculturalism -- Values Clarification -- Values Conflict Resolution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Ethical Decision-Making Processes -- Objectives -- Ethical Judgment -- A Review of Ethical Decision-Making Models -- Theoretical or Philosophical Models of Individual Choice -- Quantification as a Means to Individual Choice -- Practice-Derived Models of Individual Choice -- Models of Relational Influence -- Empirical Findings on Models or Premises -- Willingness or Resoluteness as a Factor in Decision Making -- The Tarvydas Integrative Decision-Making Model of Ethical Behavior -- Cottone's Social Constructivism Model of Ethical Decision Making -- Applying the Social Constructivism Model of Ethical Decision Making -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Introduction to Ethical Principles in Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Objectives -- Background.

Introduction to ethical issues and decision-making in counseling and psychotherapy -- The mental health professions and counseling specialties -- Value issues in counseling and psychotherapy -- Ethical decision-making processes -- Introduction to ethical principles in counseling and psychotherapy -- Introduction to ethical standards in counseling and psychotherapy -- Privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication -- Informed consent -- Roles and relationships with clients -- Professional responsibility -- Counselor competency -- Ethical climate -- Office and administrative practices -- Technology in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy / David B. Peterson, R. Rocco Cottone -- The ethical professional counselor and psychotherapist