Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Developing a better understanding of the ethical character of psychotherapy; Introduction; Ethics: challenging, inescapable questions; Psychotherapists as ethicists: engaging in difficult, essential tasks; Intellectual tools for examining values and ethical theory in therapy: assumptions and criteria for analysis and decision-making; The spectrum of ethical theories in psychotherapy; Unpacking diverse understandings of ̃values̃; Ethical dimensions of the contexts of psychotherapy; The intellectual contexts of psychotherapy: ethics and science
Summary
An examination of the role of the therapist as ethicist and the ways in which the ethical convictions of both therapist and client contribute to the practical process of psychotherapy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-328) and index
