Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Professions

by Gary G. Ford

The ability to reason ethically is an extraordinarily important aspect of professionalism in any field. Indeed, the greatest challenge in ethical professional practice involves resolving the conflict that arises when the professional is required to choose between two competing ethical principles. Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Professions explores how to develop the ability to reason ethically in difficult situations.

Other books merely present ethical and legal issues one at a time, along with case examples involving "right" and "wrong" answers. In dramatic contrast, Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Professions provides you with the needed background in methods of ethical reasoning and introduces an innovative nine-step model of ethical decision-making for resolving ethical dilemmas.

Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Profession discusses the ethical codes of both psychology and counseling. This interdisciplinary approach promotes a better understanding of the similarities and differences in the points of emphasis in the two codes, which, in turn, enriches your understanding of the range of ethical considerations relevant to the practice of the mental health professions.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 2000

Reviews

[Pamela Tucker]

Any learner of psychology that plans on getting their license will want to read and study this book. It has the Ethical code in the back of the book, but really one should go to apa.org and look up American Psychological Association codes these will be ask not only in the written exam, but also the oral exam to pass your state licensing. While you are there check to see if your state requires licensure as there are a few that do not. This also depends on the psychology degree where one like myself is studying I/O psychology the part of the degree as consultant and similar job titles do not require licensure the law states that even so, one cannot use the title I/O psychologist. The difference is in the pay of course by title and how much work one will be hired to do in contracts with corporations etc...


To others this is just a good scientific book in psychology and the method in the book helps in making the best decision on the job when working with others using ethics as a guideline.