Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics explores a whole range of ethical issues in the heterogenous field of psychotherapy. It will be an essential book for psychotherapists in clinical practice and valuable for those professionals providing mental health services beyond psychology and medicine, including counsellors and social workers

List of contents

• Section I: Background and historical context


• 1: Manuel Trachsel, Jens Gaab, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Serife Tekin, and John Z. Sadler: Why ethics matter in psychotherapy


• 2: Alan Tjeltveit: A brief moral history of psychotherapy


• 3: Carole Sinclair: What do psychotherapists need to know about the history of professional ethics?


• 4: Ulrich Koch and Kelso Cratsley: The history and ethics of the therapeutic relationship


• Section II: Concepts and Theories for Psychotherapy Ethics


• 5: Paul Biegler: Autonomy as a goal in psychotherapy


• 6: Marco Annoni: Patient protection and paternalism in psychotherapy


• 7: Jeffrey H.D. Cornelius-White and Gillian Proctor: Empathy, honesty, and integrity in the therapist: a person-centered perspective


• 8: Marta Herschkopf and Rebecca Brendel: Fairness, justice, and economical thinking in psychotherapy


• 9: Anna Elsner and Vanessa Rampton: Ethics of care approaches in psychotherapy


• 10: Susana Lampley and John Z. Sadler: Legitimate and illegitimate imposition of therapists' values on patients


• 11: Michael Laney and Adam Brenner: Virtue ethics in psychotherapy


• 12: Eleanor Gilmore-Szott and Thomas Cunningham: How do people make moral medical decisions?


• 13: Alexander Noyon and Thomas Heidenreich: Existential philosophy and psychotherapy ethics


• 14: Giovanni Stanghellini: Phenomenological-hermeneutic resources for an ethics of psychotherapeutic care


• 15: Tobias Zürcher: Free will, responsibility, and blame in psychotherapy


• 16: Roberto Andorno: Dignity in psychotherapy ethics


• Section III: Common Ethical Challenges in Psychotherapy


• 17: Alastair McKean, Manuel Trachsel, and Paul Croarkin: The ethics of informed consent for psychotherapy


• 18: Stella Reiter-Theil and Charlotte Wetterauer: Ethics of the therapeutic alliance, shared decision-making, and consensus on therapy goals


• 19: James Phillips and John Z. Sadler: Evidence, science, and ethics in talk-based healing practices


• 20: Charlotte Blease, John M. Kelley, and Manuel Trachsel: Patient information on evidence and clinical effectiveness of psychotherapy


• 21: Michael Linden: Ethical dimensions of psychotherapy side effects


• 22: Anke Maatz, Lena Schneller, and Paul Hoff: Privacy and confidentiality in psychotherapy: conceptual background and ethical considerations in the light of clinical challenges


• 23: Kevin S. Doyle: Dual and multiple relationships in psychotherapy


• 24: John Z. Sadler: Ethics considerations in selecting psychotherapy modalities and formats


• 25: Jeffrey E. Barnett: Therapist self-disclosure


• 26: Jens Gaab and Manuel Trachsel: Placebo and nocebo in psychotherapy


• 27: Anna E. Brandon: The business of psychotherapy in private practice


• 28: Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Tricia Johnson: Impact of mental health care funding and reimbursement systems on access to psychotherapy


• 29: Cynthia Geppert: Psychotherapeutic futility


• 30: Larry Davidson: The moral significance of recovery


• 31: Kristi Pikiewicz: Social media ethics for the professional psychotherapist


• 32: Thomas G. Plante: Relationship between religion, spirituality, and psychotherapy: An ethical perspective


• 33: Laura Guidry-Grimes and Jamie Carlin Watson: Ethics and expert authority in the patient-psychotherapist relationship


• Section IV: Ethical Issues with Specific Psychotherapy Approaches


• 34: Sahanika Ratnayake and Christopher Poppe: Ethical issues in cognitive-behavioral therapy


• 35: Robert P. Drozek: Ethical processes in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy


• 36: Andreas Fryszer and Rainer Schwing: Ethical issues in systemic psychotherapy


• 37: Orah T. Krug and Troy Piwowarski: Ethical issues in existential-humanistic psychotherapy


• 38: Ueli Kramer and Robert Elliott: Ethical considerations in emotion-focused therapy


• 39: Abigail Levin: Ethical considerations on mindfulness-based psychotherapeutic interventions


• 40: Martin grosse Holtforth, Juan Martin Gómez Penedo, Cosima Locher, Charlotte Blease, and Louis G. Castonguay: Psychotherapy integration as an ethical practice


• Section V: Ethical Challenges of Specific Settings and Populations


• 41: Virginia M. Brabender: Identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas in group psychotherapy


• 42: Marcel Schaer and Célia Steinlin: Ethics in couple and family psychotherapy


• 43: Ashley R. Castro, Gerald P. Koocher, and Eric Peist: Ethical challenges of specific settings and populations: Psychotherapy with children and adolescents


• 44: Julian C. Hughes and Richard Cheston: Psychotherapy in old age: Ethical issues


• 45: Josh E. Becker, Audrey Cecil, and Michael C. Gottlieb: Ethical considerations of court-ordered outpatient therapy


• 46: Gwen Adshead: Ethical issues in the psychotherapy of high risk offenders


• 47: Ofer Zur and Manuel Trachsel: Beyond the office walls: Ethical challenges of home treatment, and other out-of-office therapies


• 48: Alysia Hoover-Thompson, BrandonC. Bogle, and James L. Werth, Jr.: Common ethical issues associataed with psychotherapy in rural areas


• 49: Julia Stoll and Manuel Trachsel: Ethical aspects of online psychotherapy


• 50: Tania Manriquez, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Manuel Trachsel: The ethics of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy


• 51: Gaby Shefler, Shai Lederman, and Refael Yonatan-Leus: Unique ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy of other psychotherapists: Description, considerations, and ways of coping


• 52: Mathieu Bernard, Sonia Krenz, and Ralf J. Jox: Ethics of psychotherapeutic interventions in palliative care


• 53: Diane O'Leary and Keith Geraghty: Ethical psychotherapeutic management of patients with medically unexplained symptoms: The risk of misdiagnosis and harm


• 54: Jan Ilhan Kizilhan: Psychotherapy in a multicultural society


• 55: H. Russell Searight: Conducting psychotherapy through a foreign language interpreter


• 56: Sheila Addison and Whit Ryan: Ethical issues in working with LGBTQ+ clients


• 57: Suryia Nayak: Intersectionality and psychotherapy with an eye to clinical and professional ethics


• 58: Karin Hediger, Herwig Grimm, and Andreas Aigner: Ethics of animal-assisted psychotherapy


• 59: Andreas T. Schmidt and Lovro Savic: Ethical issues of mindfulness-based interventions from a public health perspective


• Section VI: Ethics of psychotherapy education, training, quality assurance, and research


• 60: Jennifer Radden and Jerome Kroll: Virtue ethics and the multicultural clinic


• 61: Scott D. Miller, Joshua Madsen, and Mark Hubble: Toward an evidence-based standard of professional competence


• 62: Andrés Consoli, Heidi A. Zetzer, and Himadhari Sharma: Ethical importance of psychotherapists' self-care and when it fails


• 63: Paul Snelling: The metaethics of psychotherapy codes of ethics and conduct


• 64: Irina Franke and Anna Richer-Rössler: Professional conduct and handling misconduct in psychotherapy: Ethical practice between boundaries, relationships, and reality


• 65: GAM Widdershoven and AM Ruissen: Dealing with moral dilemmas in psychotherapy: The relevance of moral case deliberation


• 66: Tobias Eichinger: Psychotherapy ethics in film


• 67: Anna Magdalena Elsner: Psychotherapy ethics in 20th-century literature


• 68: Violette Corre, Poonima Bhola, and Manuel Trachsel: Ethical issues in psychotherapy research

About the author

Manuel Trachsel (MD, PhD) has been trained in medicine (MD), clinical psychology (PhD), and philosophy/ethics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the head of the Clinical Ethics Division at the University Hospital of Basel, the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel, and the Geriatric University Clinic FELIX PLATTER Basel, Switzerland. He is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr. Trachsel's research areas include the philosophy and ethics of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the intersection of psychiatry and palliative care, ethical challenges with regard to coercive measures in psychiatry, clinical ethics support services in psychiatry, medical decision-making capacity, and informed consent. He is a published author of more than 70 scientific papers, book chapters, and books including articles in JAMA, The Lancet Psychiatry, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics,

Jens Gaab is head of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He conducts psychotherapy and placebo research and is mostly interested in the complex interplay between these two psychological interventions.

Nikola Biller-Andorno is director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland, which serves as WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. She co-leads the PhD program “Biomedical Ethics and Law” and serves as Vice-President of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

John Z. Sadler, M.D. is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences and the Daniel W. Foster, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Sadler directs the Division of Ethics in the Department of Psychiatry and the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine institution-wide. During his career at UT Southwestern, Dr. Sadler has provided clinical ethics consultation for 25 years and research ethics consultation for eight years. He is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (2013), co-editor, with K.W.M Fulford, of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (Johns Hopkins University Press), coauthor with Jennifer Radden of The Virtuous Psychiatrist (OUP, 2010) and author of Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis (OUP 2005).

Serife Tekin is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Classics in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas San Antonio

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics explores a whole range of ethical issues in the heterogenous field of psychotherapy. It will be an essential book for psychotherapists in clinical practice and valuable for those professionals providing mental health services beyond psychology and medicine, including counsellors and social workers

Product details

• Authors: Manuel (Senior Lecturer Trachsel
• Assisted by: Nikola Biller-Andorno (Editor), Biller-Andorno Nikola (Editor), Jens Gaab (Editor), John Sadler (Editor), Sadler John (Editor), Serife Tekin (Editor), Manuel Trachsel (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2021
• EAN: 9780198817338
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881733-8
• No. of pages: 1168
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Abnormal psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism