The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships

by Kylea Taylor

The Ethics of Caring is written for all caregivers, including psychotherapists, bodyworkers, medical practitioners, clergy, hypnotherapists, and acupuncturists, who want to become more conscious in their relationships with clients. It provides unique help to volunteer and professional caregivers who want to sort out confusing ethical dilemmas in seven categories including love, truth, insight, and oneness as well as the more well-known ethical issues of money, sex, and power. Ethical issues pertain to longings, feelings, and motivations which resonate at our very core. Powerful, shared experiences in the context of the therapeutic relationship can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs, and longings in both the client and the caregiver. It offers a new model of self-examination which deepens the therapeutic relationship and can prevent the harmful consequences of ethical misconduct.

Genres: Psychology

263 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[Theresa Jump · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Great!

[Jim Oshinsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very clearly written and communicates clinical concepts in everyday language. As a result, we have been using it in a training program for music improvisation workshop facilitators for over ten years.

[Kirsten · Rating 5 out of 5]

I personally loved this book's approach. I taught medical ethics for years and I liked the holistic approach to these interactions we have that is presented in this book and the emphasis on what it means to clients who need health care.

[Heiki Eesmaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Therapeut's ethics from a transpersonal viewpoint. I don't know of another similar treatment, so it is good to have this one.

I am deducting a star because it did not fully meet my expectations. Namely, all this exciting material is treated like a handbook. It is almost boring to read.

As a handbook for a transpersonal counselor, I'd give it a five. If not a transpersonalist, get some other book on professional ethics.