Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy
Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy is an examination of the role of the therapist as ethicist and the ways in which the ethical convictions of both therapist and client contribute to the practical process of psychotherapy. As Psychotherapy strives to establish itself as a 'Profession', practitioners are increasinly focusing on the issue of ethics as they attempt to agree on guidelines and standards for professional practice. Alan Tjeltveit argues that any discussion of professional and ethical practice in psychotherapy is inadequate if carried out in ignorance of or in isolation from traditional ethical theories. He applies this approach to issues such as: * the role of therapy in society * the goals and outcomes of psychotherapy * techniques and practices * the existence and operation of values * the intellectual and social context in which therapy takes place. In the second part of the book, he uses clinical examples and case studies to relate this theoretical discussion to clinical practice. Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy will be welcomed by the growing number of experienced Psychotherapists and post-graduate students who are interested in the increasingly contentious issue of professional ethics
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Front Cover
Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Part I: Developing a better understanding of the ethical character of psychotherapy
1. Introduction
2. Ethics: challenging, inescapable questions
3. Psychotherapists as ethicists: engaging in difficult, essential tasks
Part II: Intellectual tools for examining values and ethical theory in therapy: assumptions and criteria for analysis and decision-making
4. The spectrum of ethical theories in psychotherapy
5. Unpacking diverse understandings of "values"
Part III: Ethical dimensions of the contexts of psychotherapy
6. The intellectual contexts of psychotherapy: ethics and science
7. The social contexts of psychotherapy: clinical practice and business
Part IV: Change in psychotherapy: ethical facets
8. Ethical dimensions of the techniques, strategies, and processes of therapy: which means to therapeutic ends?
9. Ethical dimensions of the goals and outcome of therapy: therapy as means to which (ethics-laden) ends?
Part V: Implications
10. Rethinking psychotherapy's location in a society: public philosophy and social and therapeutic contracts
11. Profession and professional ethics
12. Shaping the ethical character of psychotherapy: inevitable choices, better choices
Notes
References
Index