Confronting Malpractice: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Psychotherapy

By Mary E. Moline, George T. Williams, Kenneth M. Austin

Book Overview

With comments and evaluations from the viewpoint of mental health professionals, Confronting Malpractice contributes greatly to the needs of newly certified and seasoned therapists alike, as well as being an accessible handbook for anyone in counseling/training, psychology, social work/social welfare, family studies, interpersonal violence, and aging/gerontology. "The cogent material presented in Confronting Malpractice could serve as an antidote for many in mental health professions who may be taking risks without knowing it. This ambitious but wieldy tome is rich with information on ethical strategies for professional survival during an era of growing litigiousness. . . . This book successfully provides a needed roadmap for confidently traversing the rough territory that lies ahead. . . . Readers of this thoroughgoing book will find renewed confidence that they understand the fundamentals and realities of malpractice litigation. The well-documented and briskly authoritative writing includes compelling vignettes and questions to consider that should prompt lively discussion with colleagues, interns, and students." --Contempory Psychology "This volume is an excellent handbook for the psychotherapy practitioner at any level. . . . Teachers . . . will find this volume to be an excellent aid. . . . This is the best example I know--and perhaps the only one--in which the ethical principles of all mental health professions have been analyzed and integrated with case law to form common standards of psychotherapeutic care and service delivery across mental health professions. . . . I wish I had had a reference like this when I began my career as a psychotherapist." --from the Foreword by Sherry L. Skidmore, Ph.D. "This book will be of interest to anyone who shares this interest in the ethics of counseling]. . . . It provides useful insights into the ways the ethical practice of counselling is developing in a different social and legal context." --The Journal of the British Association for Counselling "Confronting Malpractice takes a variety of legal cases and derives from those cases concrete implications for clinical practice. The authors coherently discuss the manner in which the legal process affects therapists and also discuss concepts such as standard of care and record keeping. The book contains an excellent discussion of ethical issues and has an excellent section on sample forms that clinicians might use in their practice, such as forms for informed consent, treatment planning and progress notes. This is an informative, comprehensive book which, in a very thought-provoking format, translates much case law into concrete implications for clinical practice." --David L. Shapiro, Ph.D., Diplomate in Forensic Psychology,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803939787
• ISBN13: 9780803939783
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.5"