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Presents the results of a survey on the mixed feelings of psychotherapists about their fee structure. Existence of ambivalence among the male and female psychotherapists; Conflicts on the establishment of other parameters in the therapeutic contract; Evidence of the psychology profession's lack of training concerning money matters.

Addresses three primary moral and ethical issues faced by feminist therapists working with women in prison. Working in a racist and patriarchal situation; Conducting therapy in a setting that can be antithetical to the development of trust involved in the therapeutic relationship; Therapist's dual allegiance to the institution and the women seeking therapy.

Examines moral and ethical concerns within a community mental health clinic that serves children in protective custody who are being evaluated or placed by the child welfare system. Vulnerability of children to fragmented attempts to conceptualize their difficulties, meet their needs, and make decisions about their future; Need to bring integrity into awareness and action.

Explores the intersection of personal values and morality, with legal, ethical and therapeutic considerations that arise in the context of parental responsibility. Possibility of conflict between the feminist commitment to the individual's empowerment and the therapist's evaluative role concerning parental responsibility and parental fitness.

Examines the need to incorporate morality and responsibility into the practice of feminist therapy. Need to support the personal moral belief system that each individual brings into the therapy room; Case studies illustrating the dilemmas that two women faced concerning the conflict they experienced between their responsibility to their families and their responsibility to themselves.

Addresses areas of responsibility for psychologists in their roles as clinicians, teachers, and researchers when counseling people with disabilities. Elements of disability-affirmative therapy; Distinction between disability and impairment; Integration of sociopolitical forces into treatment; Incorporation of disability into the case formulation.

Explores moral accountability in the practice of psychotherapy by examining traditional, feminist and psychoanalytic critiques of epistemology. Moral significance of knowing and its role in the dynamics of therapy; Dealing with countertransference issues; Therapists' resistances to knowing about their patients' realities; Reality of a `dominant meaning system.'

Explores moral issues and dilemmas in the practice of psychotherapy. Role of psychotherapy in a moral society; Importance of making moral education part of the education and training of all therapists; Need for a self-examination, discussion and debate about morality among professionals and with clients; Promotion of the feminist principle of empowerment.

ABSTRACT The rapid growth of psychotherapeutic movements in recent years has led to a free market. Vast numbers of psychotherapists of different theoretical persuasions are now on offer. While such a choice has its obvious advantages, it creates bewildering confusions in the minds of potential clients. How can the clients tell which psychotherapist or psychotherapeutic enterprise to opt for? How can they know whether they have made an appropriate choice? How do they know which therapy works best under which conditions? Are there a set of criteria laid down which might guide the client in making a judicious choice? Can they be assured that after a series of agreed sessions, they will get etter? These are extremely serious issues. The paper discusses the practical and ethical implications underlying these issues and offers specific suggestions and guidelines as to how the clients might safeguard their own interests when it comes to choosing an appropriate psychotherapist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides understanding and guidance to psychotherapists in discussing the options available when working with clients with HIV who are contemplating the deliberate end of their lives. Systematic approach for assessing thinking of client; Collaborative ethical decision-making model for facilitating life-and-death decisions; Set of principles to guide psychologists in the work.

Compares the experiences of women clients who were sexually abused by female therapists with women abused by male therapists. Client and therapist characteristics; Characteristics of the exploitative relationships; Effect on clients.

Reviews the principles which should be included in courses of ethics for psychotherapists in training. Ethical principles; Basic contract for services; Professional competence; Confidentiality; Conflicts of interest; Training exercises.

Gives a professional/personal account of sexual misconduct by a therapist. Inability of the practitioner to maintain appropriate boundaries; Identification of ethical problems; Education of mental health practitioners.

Discusses sexual abuse of women by women psychotherapists. Presentation of case studies; Challenges created for colleagues of exploitative women mental health professionals.

Develops a conceptual model for defining boundary violations in feminist therapy. Characteristics of boundary violations; Process of understanding boundaries; Ethical issues.

Addresses the ethical responsibility for training programs in psychotherapy to incorporate racism, sexism and heterosexism into their curricula. Examination of teaching methods, styles and attitudes; Need for proper training to meet the needs of women, ethic minorities, lesbian, gay men and other diverse groups.

Examines the ethical implications of charging psychotherapy patients for missed sessions. Benefits to the therapist at the patient's expense; Clinical examples.

Discusses the issue of moral neutrality in therapy, the distinction between real and neurotic guilt. Psychotherapists' neutrality in moral questions; Overlapping assumptions why clinicians are committed to presenting themselves as morally neutral; Useful distinction made between real and neurotic guilt; Moral psychotherapy.

Proposes a collaborative and practical model to assess the ethical risks of nonsexual posttherapy relationships that is grounded in normative ethical principles and is drawn from literature about the therapeutic process and social role theory. Conceptual framework for analyzing ethical risks of posttherapy relationships; Ethical principles.

Reports that the maintenance of boundaries in psychotherapy has become one of the most critical areas of ethical inquiry for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Growth of public concern over nonsexual boundary violations; Complexity of defining appropriateness in psychotherapy; Endorsement of guidelines by relevant professional societies.

Sets out a view of interpersonal morality derived in large part from psychotherapeutic practice. Free attention and moral space; Expansion of intersubjectivity; Morality and social change; Social justice and social fabric; Rejoinders.

States that it was recommended that psychotherapists reveal personal religious beliefs to their patients on request which was due to the basis of the American Psychological Association Code of Ethics. Four criteria for classifying and evaluating psychotherapeutic technique and aims outlined by Robert Knight; S. Freud's critique of religious belief; Clinical assessment of the patient; Challenge a patient's fixed religious beliefs presents to the psychodynamic psychotherapist.

Examines the confluence of clinical error and ethical misconduct in the development of sexual boundary violations during psychotherapy. Difference between conscious and unconscious intent; Love as a defense against aggression; Perils of confidentiality in therapist-patient relationship; Implications for prevention in terms of training and supervision.

Reviews ethical issues within psychotherapy from the perspective of a fifty-year practice experience. Misuse of the power inherent in the therapist's role for sexual, financial, and psychopathological satisfaction; Shift from a two-party to a three-party payment system; Implications of managed care for confidentiality, scope, efficacy, and medicality of psychotherapy.

Discusses the ethics of psychotherapy. Polarization between those who view psychotherapy as a science and those who claim that is its a type of secular religion; Psychoanalytic approaches to values and ethics; Psychoanalysis as a profession; Ethics in the era of post-modernism; Association of values between patient and therapist with good outcomes in treatment.

Discusses a survey designed to obtain data concerning beliefs about various ethical issues encountered in psychotherapy. Inclusion of a discrepancy of opinion over confidentiality and the 'duty to warn' issue as it relates to potential homicide and suicidal individuals; Consideration of sexual contact with a patient while the patient is still in treatment as grounds for malpractice.

Discusses the case of a patient in brief psychotherapy who told of a sexual advance made to her by a former psychotherapist. Computer testing that predicted the patient's motivation and behavior accurately; Related issues in professional ethics and in dynamic psychology.

Examines the role of ethics in psychotherapy. Focus on the psychotherapy of ethics; Special role of attentional dynamics; Effects of techniques of treatment on patients' ethical development; Case of performance anxiety; Redirection of ethical life; Focus of medical ethics.

Examines the role of values in counseling and psychotherapy. Practitioners' use of Kluckhohn's value-orientation model; Theoretical orientations and value-orientations; Agreement among practitioners as a group about specific values; Features of the intercultural values inventory used to measure value-orientations.

Argues that counselling psychologists will benefit from the development of conceptual frameworks that focus on the moral dimensions of psychotherapeutic practice. Conceptualizations based on actual psychotherapeutic conversations; Illumination of the moral dimension of the conversations; Possibilities of further study of moral aspects of counselling and psychotherapy.

The article presents information on several articles on family psychotherapy published in various journals. Findings from a follow-up survey, conducted by researchers, F. Suffer, C. Bryce-Buchanan and R. Brotman, of pregnant addicts who participated in a comprehensive care program of the "American Journal of Orthopsychiatry," show that the program was helpful in terms of drug use and health. An article by G. Serban published in the "American Journal of Psychotherapy" deals with the legal and ethical issues related to sexual activity and psychotherapy. The "Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology," published an article regarding empirical validation of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory, conducted by researchers, D. K. Snyder, R. M. Wills, and T. W. Keiser.

The author discusses aspects of sex therapy. The topics discussed include patients' views of their sexual problems, the concept of sexuality as a social construct, and the use of cognitive behavioral therapy to resolve sexual problems. Also discussed are ethical aspect of sex therapy and meta-analysis of evidence based therapy relationships.

The authors discuss the clinical and ethical implications of boundary violations, commenting on their belief in the need for different ethical considerations of patient-therapist boundaries for child psychiatry. They address the effect of therapeutic modalities on the definition of appropriate therapist behavior, the role of age differences in psychiatric treatment of children, and the impact of a clinical diagnosis on interactions.

In this article, the author discusses the importance of cultural pluralism for Christian counseling and psychotherapy approach in mental health. The American Psychological Association (APA) has practiced explicitly Christian contemporary culture of counseling and psychotherapy to protect individuals from insecurities and public injustices. Furthermore, the author explained the relations between chaplaincy program and public education for evangelization.

In this article, the author discusses the implications of Christian psychotherapy approach based on ecumenical, denominational and empirically-supported manner in public settings. The author emphasized the importance of professional ethics that psychotherapists must have to posses to make them more effective in dealing clients with religious, racial, cultural and lifestyle backgrounds. In ecumenical therapy, the attitudes and skills were important to understand multiculturalism.

The new ethics section editor discusses ethical dilemmas facing professional counselors in today's society and invites readers to contact him about their ideas, perspectives, and ethical situations. Ethics is discussed as a means of professional unification, whereas counselor identity and counselor wellness are identified as being integral to ethical behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the management of untreatable forensic psychiatric patients. Factors resulting to negative treatment of psychiatric patients; Speculations regarding the ethical aspect of the treatment of forensic patients; Presentation of psychiatric traits determined by neurobiological dysfunctions; Criteria for untreatability.

E-mental health applications (apps) are an increasingly important factor for the treatment of depression. To assess the risks and benefits for patients, an in-depth ethical analysis is necessary. The objective of this paper is to determine the ethical implications of app-based treatment for depression. An evidence-based ethical analysis was conducted. The material was meta-reviews and randomized control studies (RCTs) on app-based treatment. Based on the empirical data, an ethical analysis was conducted using the 3-ACES-approach by Thornicroft and Tansella. Apps may empower autonomy, offer an uninterrupted series of contacts over a period of time, show evidence-based benefits for patients with subclinical and mild-to-moderate-symptoms, are easily accessible, may be used for coordinating information and services within an episode of care, and are on the whole cost-effective. Their risks are that they are not suitable for the whole range of severity of mental illnesses and patient characteristics, show severe deficits in the data privacy policy, and a big variability in quality standards. The use of apps in depression treatment can be beneficial for patients as long as (1) the usefulness of an app-based treatment is assessed for each individual patient, (2) apps are chosen according to symptom severity as well as characteristics like the patient's level of self-reliance, their e-literacy, and their openness vis-à-vis apps, (3) manufacturers improve their privacy policies and the quality of apps.

Comments on the need to address issues related to the psychotherapy fee. Concerns of the women therapists on the taking of money from clients; Effect of mind conditioning towards the acceptance of money from the suffering of others; Importance of personal income to one's self-worth.

Conversion therapy is a set of practices that aim to change or alter an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. It is practiced in every region of the world by health professionals, religious practitioners, and community or family members often by or with the support of the state. Conversion therapy is performed despite evidence that it is ineffective and likely to cause individuals significant or severe physical and mental pain and suffering with long-term harmful effects. The purpose of this medico-legal statement is to provide legal experts, adjudicators, health care professionals, and policy makers, among others, with an understanding of: 1) the lack of medical and scientific validity of conversion therapy; 2) the likely physical and psychological consequences of undergoing conversion therapy; and 3) whether, based on these effects, conversion therapy constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or torture when individuals are subjected to it forcibly or without their consent. This medico-legal statement also addresses the responsibility of states in regulating the practice, the ethical implications of offering or performing it, and the role that health professionals and medical and mental health organisations should play with regards to it., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None to declare., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved.)

Although psychotherapy is generally efficacious, a substantial number of patients fail to improve meaningfully, whereas still others deteriorate. Moreover, psychotherapists have difficulty forecasting which patients are at risk for nonresponse or deterioration, especially when relying predominantly on their judgment. These limitations have implications for the ethical practice of psychotherapy, and they call for remediation strategies. One such strategy involves the use of routine outcomes monitoring (ROM), or the regular collection of core patient progress information that can be fed back to the clinician and patient in real time. ROM-informed analytics outperform clinical judgment in predicting patients who are on or off track for treatment success, which can help psychotherapists plan and responsively adjust their interventions. Additionally, research demonstrates that ROM-generated feedback improves treatment outcomes for the average case who receives versus does not receive it. ROM data can also uncover between-therapist differences in general efficacy, as well as scientifically highlight clinicians' own relative strengths and weaknesses in treating different mental health problems. In light of such evidence, we submit that the research on ROM has matured to the point that it should occupy a central role in discussions of, and guidelines about, the ethical practice of psychotherapy. In this vein, we discuss ROM at patient, psychotherapist, and mental health care systems levels; namely, for each of these stakeholders, we review the extant empirical support before turning to possible ethical implications. Finally, we offer concluding thoughts on the expanding relevance of ROM for helping psychologists fulfill their ethical practice obligations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).