Description:
This book introduces readers to the ethical dilemmas that therapists can face in their therapeutic practices. By mapping the counselling process from beginning to end, it focuses on key ethical issues such as informed consent, confidentiality, boundaries, the use of touch and dual relationships.
It draws on a series of in-depth case studies illustrating ethical dilemmas, and presents the reader with reflective questions at the end of each example.
The book covers: The Context of Relational Ethics - Relational Ethics within the Therapeutic Relationship - Exploring the complex judgement demanded by the therapeutic process, and looking at how therapy needs to be situation specific.
Brief description:
Dr Linda Finlay is a relational-centred, existential Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor (UKCP registered) in private practice in York, UK. She also teaches psychology and counselling at the Open University (UK) and works as a freelance academic consultant. She has published many books and articles on psychotherapy, occupational therapy, reflexivity and phenomenological research. Her most recent books are psychotherapeutically focused: Relational Integrative Psychotherapy: Engaging Process and Theory in Practice (Wiley); Practical Ethics: A relational approach (Sage); and The therapeutic use of self in counselling and psychotherapy (Sage).
Review Quotes: Rather than relying on a set of ethical "rules" Linda Finlay is constantly reminding psychotherapist, counsellor, and coaches to question our actions: "Is my behaviour beneficial to this particular client's welfare, at this point in time, and in this context?"