ETHICS
Working with Ethical and Moral Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
Petruska Clarkson
Whurr Publications, 2000
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn how seven psychotherapists approach particular ethical dilemmas
• Explore a wide range of perspectives on ethics and morality
• Examine research studies of practitioners' dilemmas to theoretical and philosophical explanations of the ethics of psychotherapy
• Learn what “defensive psychotherapy” is
• Learn why patients may charge their therapists with wrongdoing
• Learn the administrative and ancillary staff concerns with ethical guidelines
• Learn the concept of “Qualified Privilege” in ethics and what it addresses
• Learn the ethical issues that supervisors should be concerned with
• Recognize what may be ethical is neither always legal nor always moral
Petruska Clarkson is a consultant philosopher, chartered clinical, counseling, and chartered occupational psychologist, registered child, individual and group psychotherapist, accredited supervisor and management consultant with almost 30 years' international experience and more than 150 publications (in 22 languages) in these fields. She works at the Centre for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy Training and Supervision at PHYSIS, London, is Professor of Counseling and Psychotherapy at Surrey University, Roehampton, and is visiting professor at Westminster University as well as at other training institutions and universities in the UK and abroad. She was Honorary Secretary of the Universities Psychotherapy Association and has served on many ethics boards including being the chair of the PS section of the UKCP.
9 CE credits; 282 pages
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