Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy

by Lazarus, Arnold A.

• ISBN13: 9780826148995
• ISBN10: 0826148999
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Text challenges some of the basic principles of clinical codes of ethical conduct established for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health workers. Case studies demonstrate how nonsexual dual relationships may result in increased trust, familiarity, and therapeutic effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Foreword	xix
Patrick H. DeLeon
Acknowledgments	xxv
Introduction	xxvii
Part 1: Overview and Controversies of Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy
Six Arguments Against Dual Relationships and Their Rebuttals	3	(22)
Ofer Zur
Arnold A. Lazarus
How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness	25	(7)
Arnold A. Lazarus
The Ethics of Dual Relationships	32	(12)
Karl Tomm
In Celebration of Dual Relationships: How Prohibition of Nonsexual Dual Relationships Increases the Chance of Exploitation and Harm	44	(11)
Ofer Zur
Part 2: The Ethics of Dual Relationships
The Truth About the Codes of Ethics: Dispelling the Rumors That Dual Relationships Are Unethical	55	(9)
Ofer Zur
Boundary Violations: Do Some Contended Standards of Care Fail to Encompass Commonplace Procedures of Humanistic, Behavioral, and Eclectic Psychotherapies?	64	(24)
Martin H. Williams
Out-of-Office Experience: When Crossing Office Boundaries and Engaging in Dual Relationships Are Clinically Beneficial and Ethically Sound	88	(10)
Ofer Zur
The Multiple Roles and Relationships of Ethical Psychotherapy: Revisiting the Ideal, the Real, and the Unethical	98	(17)
Simon Shimshon Rubin
Part 3: Boundaries
The Psychotherapist and the Quest for Power: How Boundaries Have Become an Obsession	115	(25)
Tana Dineen
How Do You Like These Boundaries?	140	(6)
Arnold A. Lazarus
The Case Against Boundaries in Psychotherapy	146	(23)
Allen Fay
Part 4: Laws, Boards, Ethics, and Other Forensic Matters
Dual-Relationship Prohibitions: A Concept Whose Time Never Should Have Come	169	(43)
Bruce W. Ebert
Can Boards of Examiners Constitute the Ultimate, Harmful Multiple Relationship?	212	(12)
T. Richard Saunders
Multiple Relationships: A Malpractice Plaintiff's Litigation Strategy	224	(15)
Martin H. Williams
Psychologists, Licensing Boards, Ethics Committees, and Dehumanizing Attitudes: With Special Reference to Dual Relationships	239	(10)
Arnold A. Lazarus
Dueling Over Dual Relationships	249	(8)
John Fleer
Are Dual Relationships Antitherapeutic?	257	(16)
Alan W. Scheflin
Part 5: Dual Relationships in Special Populations
Nonsexual Dual Relationships in Professional Practice, With Special Applications to Rural and Military Communities	273	(14)
Jeffrey E. Barnett
Barbara A. Yutrzenka
Dual Relationships in the Deaf Community: When Dual Relationships Are Unavoidable and Essential	287	(11)
Debra Guthmann
Katherine A. Sandberg
Sanity and Sanctity: The Counselor and Multiple Relationships in the Church	298	(17)
Russ Llewellyn
Multiple Relationships in Military Psychology	315	(14)
Ofer Zur
Steve Gonzalez
Dual Relationships in Psychotherapy in Latin America	329	(8)
Roberto Kertesz
Part 6: Dual Relationships in University Counseling Centers
Dual Relationships and University Counseling Center Environments	337	(11)
Rafael S. Harris Jr.
The Shirtless Jock Therapist and the Bikini-Clad Client: An Exploration of Chance Extratherapeutic Encounters	348	(12)
Scott M. Hyman
College and University Student Counseling Centers: Inevitable Boundary Shifts and Dual Roles	360	(21)
Miriam Iosupovici
Equilla Luke
Part 7: Special Dual Relationships
The Therapist as Matchmaker	381	(13)
Clifford N. Lazarus
Bartering	394	(15)
J. Lawrence Thomas
Authorization to Continue: A Posttermination Friendship Evolves	409	(16)
Marjorie Goldin
Part 8: Feminist Perspective on Dual Relationships
Out of Bounds	425	(7)
Miriam Greenspan
Feminist Ethics, Boundary Crossings, Dual Relationships, and Victims of Violence	432	(17)
Lenore E. A. Walker
Part 9: A Final Peek Behind the Scenes
How Consensus Regarding the Prohibition of Dual Relationships Has Been Contrived	449	(14)
Ofer Zur
The Last Word	463	(6)
Nicholas A. Cummings
Appendix A: Summary of Key Points	469	(4)
Appendix B: Guidelines to Nonsexual Dual Relationships in Psychotherapy	473	(4)
Author Index	477	(8)
Subject Index	485