Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach, Second Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Legal Floor and Positive Ethics
2. Foundations of Ethical Behavior
3. Ethical Decision Making
4. Competence
5. Informed Consent, Empowered Collaboration, or Shared Decision Making
6. Multiple Relationships and Professional Boundaries
7. Confidentiality, Privileged Communications, and Record Keeping
8. Life-Endangering Patients
9. Forensic Psychology
10. Assessment
11. Special Topics in Psychotherapy
12. Business Issues
13. Psychologists as Educators
14. Consultation and Clinical Supervision
15. Research and Scholarship

Afterword

References

Index

About the Authors

Samuel Knapp, EdD, ABPP, is the director of professional affairs for the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. He has authored or edited 16 books and about 100 articles and made almost 300 professional presentations on ethics and other professional issues. He was the editor-in-chief of the recently published APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology (2012). He holds a diplomate in counseling psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and he is a fellow of APA Division 31 (State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs).

Leon D. VandeCreek, PhD, ABPP, is a professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University. He has authored or edited more than 20 books and about 200 articles and professional presentations. He was an associate editor of the recently published APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology (2012). He holds a diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and he is a fellow of several divisions of APA. In 2005, he served as the president of APA Division 29 (Psychotherapy).