The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients for Profound, Transformative Work in Professional Healing Relationships

by Kylea Taylor

Staying in right relationship with a client is often an artful movement, a dance with a different "partner" each time. Yet there are helpful rules of thumb that can keep us from stepping on toes (doing harm) and actually support both professional and client in doing a beautiful, healing dance together (creating client benefit). The Ethics of Caring is a unique ethics text designed to guide the self-compassionate self-reflection of students and professionals (therapists, clergy, hospice workers, bodyworkers, educators, medical professionals, mentors, and other caregivers) toward understanding human motivations and countertransference, finding professional right relationship, and making good choices with clients. The Ethics of Caring especially illuminates the inevitable, profound, transformative moments in a professional relationship, which furnish greater potential for client healing, but also may bring greater ethical challenges.

360 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Kimberly Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent philosophical look at ethics in the environment of extraordinary states of consciousness. A non judgmental conversation on the exchanged dynamics between therapists in the healing world and the people they work with provides many thought provoking moments.