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Preventing boundary violations in clinical practice / Thomas G. Gutheil, Archie Brodsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutheil, Thomas G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapist and patient--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Psychotherapists--Professional ethics.
- Psychotherapists.
- Boundaries--Psychological aspects.
- Boundaries.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What do you do when you run into a patient in a public place? How do you respond when a patient suddenly hugs you at the end of a session? Do you accept a gift that a patient brings to make up for causing you some inconvenience? Questions like these-which virtually all clinicians face at one time or another-have serious clinical, ethical, and legal implications. This authoritative, practical book uses compelling case vignettes to show how a wide range of boundary questions arise and can be responsibly resolved as part of the process of therapy. Coverage includes role reversal, gifts, s
- Contents:
- Definitions and dilemmas
- Therapy and its limits
- Role, time, place
- Money, services, gifts
- Self-disclosure
- Communication and out-of-office contacts
- Clothing and physical contact
- Sexual misconduct
- What harms are caused?
- Vulnerabilities
- Understandings and misunderstandings
- Liabilities
- Prevention.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-75301-7
- 9786611753016
- 1-60623-055-7
- OCLC:
- 312083643
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