Ethics in psychotherapy and counseling : a practical guide / Kenneth S. Pope, Melba J.T. Vasquez.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-436) and indexes.

Helping without hurting: personal responsibility, constant questioning, and basic assumptions -- Ethics and critical thinking -- Trust, power, and caring -- Competence and the human therapist -- Creating strategies for self-care -- Creating a professional will -- Codes and complaints in context: historical, empirical, and actuarial, foundations -- Responding to ethics, licensing, or malpractice complaints -- Steps in ethical decision making -- Beginnings and endings, absences and accessibility -- Informed consent and informed refusal -- Assessment, testing, and diagnosis -- Sexual relationships with clients -- Nonsexual multiple relationships and other boundary issues -- Culture, context, and individual differences -- Confidentiality -- Responding to suicidal risk -- The supervisory relationship.