Ethical implications of culturally (in)sensitive practice in psychotherapy

Ethical Practice of Group Experiential Psychotherapy

Ethical issues related to the practice of group experiential therapy are discussed. Particular emphasis is given to ethical considerations associated with group psychotherapy versus individual psychotherapy, therapist competency in the use of experiential techniques, leader power issues, and aftercare. The “Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct” of the American Psychological A...

Culturally competent psychotherapy.

To provide effective psychotherapy for culturally different patients, therapists need to attain cultural competence, which can be divided broadly into the 2 intersecting dimensions of generic and specific cultural competencies. Generic cultural competence includes the knowledge and skill set necessary to work effectively in any cross-cultural therapeutic encounter. For each phase of psychothera...

The ethical implications of forensic psychiatry practice.

Ethical reflection and psychotherapy.

OBJECTIVE Theories of ethics and ethical reflection may be applied to both theory and practice in psychotherapy. There is a natural affinity between ethics and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy practice is concerned with human problems, dilemmas and emotions related to both one's own and other people's values. Ethics is also concerned with dilemmas in human thinking and with how these dilemmas refle...

Some implications of psychotherapy research for therapeutic practice.

A survey of psychotherapy research findings is digested into 6 broad conclusions, and implications for practice and research are drawn from them. They are: (a) Psychotherapy causes clients to become better or worse adjusted than controls, (b) Control Ss improve with time as a result of informal therapeutic encounters, (c) Therapeutic progress varies with therapist warmth, empathy, adjustment, a...