Practical Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy
A Relational Approach
- Linda Finlay - The Open University
Are you sometimes challenged by how to apply ethical principles in your own practice? Looking to understand what ethical practice can look like from different theoretical standpoints?
Linda Finlay takes you on an exploration of ethical therapeutic practice. She highlights how therapeutic decisions depend on the social and relational context and vary according to your theoretical lens. She provides you with guidance on how to engage in therapy relationally while remaining professional, ethical and evidence-based.
Split over three parts this book takes you through:
- The Context of Relational Ethics - introducing you to the foundational ideas, and considering how professional codes are applied within therapy
- Relational Ethics within the Therapeutic Relationship – exploring the complex judgements demanded by the therapeutic process, and looking at how therapy needs to be situation specific
- Relational Ethics in Practice – five extended, fictional case studies demonstrate relational ethics in practice, and discuss the issues raised.
Linda Finlay is to be congratulated on this remarkable, well written and much needed book on not only practical but also relational ethics. It offers a vast amount of material and examples which reflect the complexities, challenges as well as new perspectives which inform ethical and contemporary relational practice.
The author highlights how therapeutic decisions depend on the social and relational context and vary according to your theoretical lens... Finlay provides guidance on how to engage in therapy relationally while remaining professional, ethical and evidence -based.
This is an informative and detailed text which takes a critical approach to the topic of ethics in counselling, and would be a useful read for anyone with an interest in the field.
This book presents ethics in clinical practice, considering situations that psychotherapists will meet with their clients. As well as giving clinical examples, the reader is invited to think through given situations. This is helpful for both students and practitioners.
Sage College Publishing
