Ethics and values in psychotherapy /
Alan C. Tjeltveit.
- x, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-328) and index.
Preface -- Developing a better understanding of the ethical character of psychotherapy -- Introduction -- Ethics: challenging, inescapable questions -- Psychotherapists as ethicists: engaging in difficult, essential tasks -- Intellectual tools for examining values and ethical theory in therapy: assumptions and criteria for analysis and decision-making -- The spectrum of ethical theories in psychotherapy -- Unpacking diverse understandings of "values" -- Ethical dimensions of the contexts of psychotherapy -- The intellectual contexts of psychotherapy: ethics and science -- The social contexts of psychotherapy: clinical practice and business -- Change in psychotherapy: ethical facets -- Ethical dimensions of the techniques, strategies, and processes of therapy: which means to therapeutic ends? -- Ethical dimensions of the goals and outcome of therapy: therapy as means to which (ethics-laden) ends? -- Implications -- Rethinking psychotherapy's location in a society: public philosophy and social and therapeutic contracts -- Profession and professional ethics -- Shaping the ethical character of psychotherapy: inevitable choices, better choices -- Notes -- References -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. Pt. IV. 8. 9. Pt. V. 10. 11. 12.
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Psychotherapy--Moral and ethical aspects Psychotherapy--Social aspects