Ethics in psychology and the mental health professions : standards and cases / Gerald P. Koocher, Patricia Keith-Spiegel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On being an ethical psychologist -- Making ethical decisions -- Enforcement of ethical conduct -- Knowing thyself: competence and credentials -- Psychotherapy part I. Ethical obligations of psychotherapists -- Psychotherapy part II. Techniques and controversies -- The mental health business: money and manage care -- Privacy, confidentiality, and record keeping -- Psychological assessment: testing tribulations -- Multiple-role relationships I. Boundaries, risks and doing business -- Multiple-role relationships II. Close encounters -- Multiple-role relationships III. Attraction, romance, and sexual intimacies -- Relationships with colleagues, supervisees, and employees -- Marketing professional services -- The public face of mental health professionals -- Ethical dilemmas in academic settings -- Mental health practitioners in the legal system: tort and retort -- Challenging work settings: juggling porcupines -- Scholarly publication and the responsible conduct of research -- Appendix A. American Psychological Association's Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct -- Appendix B. Canadian Psychological Association: Canadian code of ethics for psychologists -- Appendix C. American Counseling Association: code of ethics -- Appendix D. National Association of Social Workers: code of ethics -- Appendix E. American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy: code of ethics -- Appendix F. American Psychiatric Association: The principles of medical ethics with annotations especially applicable to psychiatry.

"Psychologists today must deal with a broad range of ethical issues--from charging fees to maintaining a client's confidentiality, and from conducting research to respecting clients, colleagues, and students. As the field of psychology has grown in size and scope, the role of ethics has becomemore important and complex whether the psychologist is involved in teaching, counseling, research, or practice. Now this most widely read and cited ethics text in psychology has been revised to reflect the ethics questions and dilemmas that psychologists encounter in their everyday work. Ethics inPsychology has been completely updated in response to evolving trends in psychological research and practice, as well as extensive changes in the American Psychological Association's ethics code. Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel take a practical, commonsense approach to ethics inmodern-day psychological practice, and offer constructive suggestions for both preventing problems and resolving ethical predicaments. In this book, their main intent is to present the full range of contemporary ethical issues in psychology as not only relevant and intriguing, but also as integraland unavoidable aspects of the profession. The authors make extensive use of actual case studies in order to illustrate how the APA guidelines apply to specific situations, such as fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, classroom ethics, managed care issues,confidentiality, and much more. The most recent ethics code of the American Psychological Association (1992) is used here only as a starting point. The authors go well beyond the APA code and incorporate the input of many experts. In addition to the analysis of a wide variety of general situations,new problematic areas are identified and explored. The book includes two appendixes - Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, adopted by American Psychological Association, Rules and Procedures of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association - both in aneasy-to-use format. In addition, each chapter lists summary guidelines along with current and valuable references. Highly readable, the book unites a straightforward, lively writing style with humorous anecdotes that highlight the human side of ethics and make the book a pleasure to read. Ethics inPsychology will be an indispensable guide to ethical decision-making for all psychologists and students in psychology."--Publisher description.

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