Practical Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy - A Relational Approach

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.