| Description |
xv, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Advances in psychology and mental health |
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Advances in psychology and mental health.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethical Contexts, Ethical Rules -- What Is Context? -- Relevance of Context to Professional Ethics -- Problems with Rule-Based Ethics -- Impossibility of Functioning Ethically in an Unethical Profession -- Chapter 2. Crisis of Meaning in Psychotherapy and the Vulnerable Therapist -- Loss of Meaning -- Gods of Individualism, Narcissism, and the Marketplace -- Themes of Victimhood and Survivalism -- From Individual to Social Pathology -- Mental Health Professions' Response to the Crisis of Meaning -- Need for Transformation in the Mental Health Professions -- Chapter 3. Social Constructionism and Its Implications for the Mental Health Professions -- Evolution of Social Constructionism -- Psychotherapists: Latecomers to Social Constructionism -- Implications of Social Constructionism for Psychotherapy -- Chapter 4. Language: Some Theoretical Considerations -- Language: The Meaning Maker -- Classical Theories of Language -- Social Construction of Language -- Categories, Prototypes, and Idealized Cognitive Models -- Language Development in Children -- Power to Define Good and Bad, Sane and Mad -- Chapter 5. Diagnosis: The Power to Name -- Social Control Functions of Diagnosis -- Professional Resistance to Feminist Revisions of Diagnosis -- Institutional Self-Preservation: A Hidden Agenda of DSM -- Accommodation of Other Disciplines to the DSM -- Chapter 6. Social Constructionism's Challenge to Traditional Mental Health Beliefs: Some Additional Examples -- Ideas About the Self -- Ideas About Child Development and Developmental Stages -- Ideas About Feelings -- Ideas About Intelligence -- Ideas About Family -- Chapter 7. Language of Professional Ethics: Some Buzzwords -- Touch in Psychotherapy -- Boundaries -- Dual Roles -- Risks of Risk Management -- Chapter 8. Legal Vulnerability: Context -- Incidence of Complaints Against Psychotherapists -- Factors Contributing to the Legal Vulnerability of Therapists -- Chapter 9. Licensing Boards, Malpractice Actions, and Profiles of Complaints -- Licensing Boards -- Malpractice Actions -- Profiles of Complaints -- Mental Health Professions as Incestuous Systems -- Chapter 10. Psychological Vulnerability -- Values, Beliefs, and Practices -- Practice Context -- Life-Cycle Issues -- Sudden and Unpredictable Crises and Events -- Unique Aspects of Therapist History, Character, and Emotional Life -- Increased Psychological Vulnerability in a Context of Anxiety and Litigiousness -- Chapter 11. Alternatives to Traditional Models -- Feminist Ethics -- Social Constructionist Ethics -- Ethics of Communal Welfare -- Ethics by Character of the Therapist -- Chapter 12. Toward an Ethic of Multiplicity and Mutuality -- Honoring All Voices -- Mutuality -- Chapter 13. Toward an Ethic of Care, Compassion, and Character -- Care and Compassion in a 1990s Context -- Care and Compassion: Essential Components in the Client-Therapist Relationship -- Care and Compassion: The Self of the Therapist -- Care and Compassion for Colleagues -- Character of the Therapist -- Chapter 14. Toward Transformation -- Problems in Our Current Approach to Ethics -- Alternative Ethical Models -- Ethical Therapist -- Toward an Ethical Perspective at the Institutional Level. |
| Subject |
Psychotherapists -- Professional ethics.
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Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Psychotherapists -- Job stress.
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Psychotherapy. (DNLM)D011613
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Ethics, Professional. (DNLM)D004995
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Psychotherapists -- Job stress.
(OCoLC)fst01081737
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Psychotherapists -- Professional ethics.
(OCoLC)fst01081745
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Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01081776
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Psychotherapeuten.
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Psychotherapie.
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Beroepsethiek.
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| ISBN |
0789004801 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780789004802 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0789001799 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780789001795 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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