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.
Table of Content
Part I: The Context of ′Relational Ethics′Preamble
Chapter 1: A relational approach to ethics
Chapter 2: Professional codes and legal frameworks: Thinking relationally
Chapter 3: Care as a relational ethic and its ‘shadow’
Chapter 4: Living ethics within a social world; ′Walking the talk′
Part II: Relational Ethics within the Therapeutic Relationship
Preamble
Chapter 5: ′First contact′: Creating ethical therapeutic spaces
Chapter 6: Ethical boundarying
Chapter 7: Ethical ′holding′
Chapter 8: Ethical containing
Chapter 9: Ethical endings
Part III: Relational Ethics in Practice
Preamble
Chapter 10: Karim: Brief therapy and CBT
Chapter 11: Susan: Integrating creatively?
Chapter 12: Gary: Working with anger in context
Chapter 13: Star: Containing and boundarying?
Chapter 14: Luke: Intergenerational trauma work
About the author
Dr Linda Finlay is a relational-centred, existential Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor (UKCP registered) in private practice in York, UK. She also teaches psychology and counselling at the Open University (UK) and works as a freelance academic consultant. She has published many books and articles on psychotherapy, occupational therapy, reflexivity and phenomenological research. Her most recent books are psychotherapeutically focused: Relational Integrative Psychotherapy: Engaging Process and Theory in Practice (Wiley); Practical Ethics: A relational approach (Sage); and The therapeutic use of self in counselling and psychotherapy (Sage). She is a Co-Editor of the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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