Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions: Standards and Cases

by Gerald P. Koocher, Patricia Keith-Spiegel

Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity. Good intentions are important, but unfortunately, they do not always protect the practitioner and client from breaches in ethical conduct. Academics, researchers, and students also face a range of ethical challenges from the classroom to the laboratory. Now in a new expanded edition, Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, the most widely read and cited ethics textbook in psychology, has emerged with a broadened scope extending across the mental health and behavioral science fields. The revised volume considers many of the ethical questions and dilemmas that mental health professionals encounter in their everyday practice, research, and teaching. The book has been completely updated and is now also relevant for counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and psychiatrists, and includes the ethics codes of those groups as appendices. Providing both a critical assessment and elucidation of key topics in the APA's guidelines, this comprehensive volume takes a practical approach to ethics and offers constructive means for both preventing problems, recognizing, approaching, and resolving ethical predicaments. Written in a highly readable and accessible style, this new edition retains the key features which have contributed to its popularity, including hundreds of case studies that provide illustrative guidance on a wide variety of topics, including fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, how to confront observed unethical conduct in others, and confidentiality, among others. Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions will be important reading for practitioners and students-in training.An instructors manual is available for professors on

Genres: Psychology

664 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2007

Reviews

[CD · Rating 5 out of 5]

Undoubtedly the most important psychology related book I have read so far. The writers have done an excellent job at making such dry subject matter engaging through realistic and humours case scenarios. Recommend to everyone in the mental health profession. 5/5

[Jenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some fantastically hilarious cases in here.

[Susan Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for those in the fields of mental, behavioral, developmental, and addiction health, for professionals and behavioral scientists or anyone with a strong desire to help others, this includes clinical practice and research such as decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity. Good intentions are important, but unfortunately, they do not always protect the practitioner and client from breaches in ethical conduct. Academics, researchers, and students also face a range of ethical challenges from the classroom to the laboratory. This edition has questions and dilemmas that mental health professionals encounter in their everyday practice, research, and teaching with constructive means for preventing problems and recognizing, approaching, and resolving ethical predicaments that includes over 700 case studies that provide illustrative guidance on a wide variety of topics such as new case law, electronic records, social media, changes in psychological assessment practice, mental health practitioners' interface with national security, complex work settings, and ethical issues addressing human differences and diversity with focuses on psychology, including counseling, marriage and family therapy, and social work.

[Frank Spencer · Rating 5 out of 5]

covers everything for ethics in the mental health area. Here is one of the authors' web site
http://www.ethicsresearch.com/

[Scarlett · Rating 5 out of 5]

As dry as Ethics is the authors really try to hold your attention. Very well written book.