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Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professionals addresses a fundamental need of ethics training in psychology and counseling: the development of reasoning skills to resolve the complex professional ethical issues that arise. Author Gary G. Ford provides readers with a background in ethical reasoning and introduces them to an easy-to-follow eight step model of ethical decision making…. More >>
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professionals
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I actually reviewed this book for PsycCRITIQUES, a journal of the American Psychological Association. The publishers took a quote out of context from this review and put these words on their web page: “The first Golden Age of psychology ethics texts is here…” In fact, this sentence had NO RELATIONSHIP to Ford’s book. The book is not a bad review of the ethics codes of psychology and counseling, but it is inadequate as a text because it ignores the emotional element in ethical reasoning. Ford chooses not to incorporate the research about how ethical reasoning is positively influenced by awareness of our emotions.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is wonderful if you are going into the field of counseling/clinical psychology. It discusses the Ethical Codes of the field and the ambiguities that psychologists have to face during therapy sessions with clients.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a decent book. It really helps clarify some of the thornier issues in the APA and ACA ethical standards. Great scenarios to contemplate.
Rating: 3 / 5
I think it’s one thing to read about ethics, quite different to encounter them in everyday life. It’s easy to look through a book and say “Yes this all makes sense” when it’s down in type. I read this book thinking it would open a world of ethical dilemmas for me and allow me to come up with my own ways to process and apply them to my job. However, it was just words.
In the Mental Health industry, it is my belief that generalizing ethics can be very dangerous. What is good for one is not necessarily good for another. Although this book outlines the process, one cannot truly know the answers to ethical questions into they step into the process in reality.
I really didn’t gain anything from this book, short of a headache as the print seemed exceptionally small to me.
Rating: 2 / 5