Ethics and Decision Making in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Robert Rocco Cottone, PhD, LPC is a Professor of Counseling at the University of Missouri, St Louis in the Department of Education Sciences and Professional Programs and a Certified Family Therapist. He has served on the American Counsleing Association (ACA) Ethics Task Force that produced the 2005 revision of the ethics code. He chaired the American Rehabilitation Counseling Code of Professional Ethics revision task force in 2000 and has published extensively on matters of professional ethics and ethical decision making in counseling and psychology. Dr. Cottone is a Fellow of the ACA and the author of several books, including Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, published by SPC. Vilia Tarvydas, Ph.D., CRC is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Department at The University of Iowa. She has served as President of the National Council on Rehabilitation Education, the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association, and the American Association of State Counseling Boards. She has published extensively on ethics, ethical decision-making, and professional governance and standards and has chaired the ACA and CRCC Ethics Committees. She chaired the CRCC Code Revision Taskforce that wrote the 2010 CRCC Code of Professional Ethics, and was a member of the ACA Code Revision Task Force that wrote the 2005 ACA Code of Ethics, and has been a member of the ACA Ethics Appeals Committee. In July, 2019 she completed a five year term on the Board of Directors of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), where she served as Vice-Chair. Dr. Tarvydas is the lead editor of the SPC publication, The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling and has contributed to several other SPC publications. Michael T. Hartley, PhD, CRC, is an associate professor and faculty chair of the Counseling Program, Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies at the University of Arizona. His research has focused on professional ethics, and has 30 peer reviewed journal articles and 10 book chapters focused on the intersection of professional ethics with social justice and digital technology. He is the co-editor of the SPC book, The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling. Dr. Hartley served on the taskforce to revise the 2017 Code of Ethics for the Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC). Having served in variety of leadership roles over the years, including the CRCC ethics committee, Dr. Hartley recently served as treasurer of the Arizona Counseling Association (AzCA) and president of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA).

PART I
OVERVIEW OF ETHICAL ISSUES IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.
CHAPTER 1.
INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL ISSUES AND DECISION-MAKING IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
CHAPTER 2.
THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
CHAPTER 3.
VALUE ISSUES IN COUNSELING
CHAPTER 4.
ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
CHAPTER 5.
INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN COUNSELING
CHAPTER 6.
INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL AND LEGAL STANDARDS IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
PART II
ETHICAL AND LEGAL CHALLENGES ACROSS MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
CHAPTER 7.
CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING PRACTICE
CHAPTER 8
SCHOOL COUNSELING AND SCHOOL BASED MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
CHAPTER 9
COUPLES, MARITAL, AND FAMILY THERAPY
CHAPTER 10
REHABILITATION COUNSELING
CHAPTER 11
ADDICTIONS COUNSELING
CHAPTER 12
CAREER COUNSELING
CHAPTER 13.
GROUP COUNSELING
PART III
ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
CHAPTER14.
ETHICAL CLIMATE
CHAPTER 15.
OFFICE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PRACTICES
CHAPTER 16.
ETHICS OF COUNSELING SUPERVISION
CHAPTER 17.
TECHNOLOGY ETHICS AND DISTANCE COUNSELING

PART VI.
CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER 18.
THE ETHICAL PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST
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