Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy

by Tjeltveit,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415156646
• ISBN10: 0415156645
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-05-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethics and Values in Psychotherapyexamines the ways in which the ethical convictions of both therapist and client contribute to the practical process of psychotherapy. Practitioners are increasingly focusing on the issue of their extensive--and often problematic--ethical influence on clients as they attempt to agree on guidelines and standards for professional practice. Alan C. Tjeltveit argues that any discussion of ethical practice in psychotherapy must be carried out in connection with traditional ethical theories. The author draws on scientific, clinical, and philosophical approaches to address issues such as: the role of therapy in society; the goals and outcomes of psychotherapy; techniques and practices; the existence and operation of values; and the intellectual and social context in which therapy takes place. This comprehensive study is a significant contribution to the debate on the ethical character of psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I Developing a better understanding of the ethical character of psychotherapy	1	(48)
Introduction	3	(15)
Ethics: challenging, inescapable questions	18	(17)
Psychotherapists as ethicists: engaging in difficult, essential tasks	35	(14)
PART II Intellectual tools for examining values and ethical theory in therapy: assumptions and criteria for analysis and decision-making	49	(56)
The spectrum of ethical theories in psychotherapy	51	(32)
Unpacking diverse understandings of ``values''	83	(22)
PART III Ethical dimensions of the contexts of psychotherapy	105	(48)
The intellectual contexts of psychotherapy: ethics and science	107	(24)
The social contexts of psychotherapy: clinical practice and business	131	(22)
PART IV Change in psychotherapy: ethical facets	153	(76)
Ethical dimensions of the techniques, strategies, and processes of therapy: which means to therapeutic ends?	155	(33)
Ethical dimensions of the goals and outcome of therapy: therapy as means to which (ethics-laden) ends?	188	(41)
PART V Implications	229	(58)
Rethinking psychotherapy's location in a society: public philosophy and social and therapeutic contracts	231	(23)
Profession and professional ethics	254	(14)
Shaping the ethical character of psychotherapy: inevitable choices, better choices	268	(19)
Notes	287	(5)
References	292	(37)
Index	329