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Previous edition: 2011.Or Malpractice Complaints
Don't Panic
Consult Your Attorney First–and Make Sure you Have a Good One!
Notify Your Professional Liability Carrier
Who is Your Attorney's Client?
Is the Complaint Valid?
Did You Make a Formal Complaint More Likely?
Apologize and Accept Responsibility?
What Are You Willing To Have Done?
Recognize how the Complaint is Affecting You
Get the Help and Support You Need
What Can The Ordeal Teach?
Chapter 17: Steps in Ethical Decision Making
Step 1: State The Question, Dilemma, or Concern as Clearly as Possible
Step 2: *Anticipate Who Will be Affected by the Decision
Step 3: Figure Out Who, if Anyone, is the Client
Step 4: Assess Whether Our Areas of Competence—and of Missing Knowledge, Skills, Experience
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Strengthening Ethical Intelligence
What Do I Do Now?
Chapter 2: Ethics in Real Life: Grad School Didn’t Prepare Us For This
Computer Coincidences
Life in Chaos
Evaluating Children
The Fatal Disease
The Mechanic
The Postdoctoral Experience
Staying Sober
Chapter 3: The Human Therapist and the (Sometimes) Inhuman Relationship
Being Absent in the Present
Chapter 4: Avoiding Pseudoscience, Fads, and Academic Urban Legends
Chapter 5: Ethical Judgment Under Uncertainty and Pressure
Critical Thinking about Heuristics, Authorities, & Groups
Cognitive Commitments
Authorities
Groups
WYSIATI
Imaginative Illusions
Chapter 6: 26 Logical Fallacies in Ethical Reasoning*
1. Ad Hoc Rationalization
2. Ad Hominem or Ad Feminam
3. Affirming the Consequent
4. Appeal To Ignorance (Ad Ignorantium)
5. Argument to Logic (Argumentum ad Logicam)
6. Begging the Question (Petitio Principii)
7. Composition Fallacy
8. Denying the Antecedent
9. Disjunctive Fallacy
10. Division Fallacy
11. Existential Fallacy
12. False Analogy
13. False Continuum
14. False Dilemma
15. False Equivalence
16. Genetic Fallacy
17. Golden Mean Fallacy
18. Ignoratio Elenchi
19. Mistaking Deductive Validity for Truth
20. Naturalistic Fallacy
21. Nominal Fallacy
22. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (After this, therefore on account of this)
23. Red Herring
24. Slippery Slope (also known as “The Camel’s Nose Fallacy”)
25. Straw Person
26. You Too! (tu quoque)
Chapter 7: Using and Misusing Words to Reveal and Conceal
Substitute the General for the Specific
Use a Conditional Frame for Consequences
Use Denied Motivation as Misdirection
Use the Abstract Language of Technicalities
Use the Passive Voice
Make Unimportant by Contrasting With What Did Not Occur
Replace Intentional Unethical Behavior With the Language of Accidents, Misfortune, and Mistakes
Smother the Events in the Language of Attack
Chapter 8: Ethics Placebos, Cons, & Creative Cheating: A User’s Guide
Chapter 9: Trust, Power, and Caring
Trust
Power
Caring
Chapter 10: Moral Distress and Moral Courage
Background
Bureaucratic-Professional Conflict
THE TRANSFER
LEGAL MANEUVERS
The Profession’s Response
The Loneliness of Whistle Blowing
Chapter 11: The Ethics Of Teletherapy, Internet Therapy, And Other Digital Work
Challenges Of The New Technologies
Risks, Downsides, and Disasters
Five Special Pitfalls
Questions to Assess Uses of Digital Media
Chapter 12: Competence And The Human Therapist
Competence as an Ethical and Legal Responsibility
Competence and Conflict
Intellectual Competence: Knowing About and Knowing How
Emotional Competence for Therapy: Knowing Yourself
Chapter 13: Creating—And Using—Strategies for Self-Care
Paying Attention to The Self
What Happens When Self-Care is Neglected
Making Sure The Strategies Fit
The Need for Change
Chapter 14: Creating a Professional Will
Who Takes Charge?
Who Serves As Backup?
Coordinated Planning
Your Office, Its Key, and its Security
Your Schedule
Client Records and Contact Information
Avenues of Communication for Clients and Colleagues
New Messages for your Answering Machine, Email Account, etc.
Informed Consent
Client Notification
Colleague Notification
Professional Liability Coverage
Attorney for Professional Issues
Billing Records, Procedures, and Instructions
Expenses
Your Personal Will
Legal Review
Copies of the Professional Will
Review and Update
Chapter 15: Codes and Complaints in Context
Historical, Empirical, and Actuarial Foundations
Mechanisms of Accountability
Ethics Committees, Codes, and Complaints
The Current APA Ethics Code
Patterns of Ethics Complaints for CPA and APA
Licensing Boards
Civil Statutes and Case Law
Criminal Statutes
Conclusion
Chapter 16: Responding To Ethics, Licensing
Step 5: Review Relevant Formal Ethical Standards
Step 6: Review Relevant Legal Standards
Step 7: Review The Relevant Research and Theory
Step 8: *Consider Whether Personal Feelings, Biases, or Self-Interest Might Shade Our Ethical Judgment
Step 9: Consider Whether Social, Cultural, Religious, or Similar Factors Affect the Situation and the Search for the Best Response
Step 10: Consider Consultation
Step 11: *Develop Alternative Courses of Action
Step 12: *Think Through the Alternative Courses of Action
Step 13: Try to Adopt the Perspective of Each Person Who will be Affected
Step 14: *Decide What to do, Review or Reconsider it, and Take Action
Step 15: *Document the Process and Assess the Results
Step 16: *Assume Personal Responsibility for the Consequences
Step 17: *Consider Implications for Preparation, Planning
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Ethics in psychotherapy and counseling : a practical guide by Kenneth S. Pope. ISBN 9781119195450. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2016. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.