Product Description: Is it ethical to treat a death row inmate only to stabilize him or her for eventual execution? What happens when a military provider receives highly sensitive intelligence from a client? How can clinicians refuse costly gifts from clients without damaging the therapeutic relationship? Should a therapist disclose a client's suicidal intent to the authorities?In Ethical Conundrums, Quandaries and Predicaments in Mental Health Practice, these and other real-life scenarios constitute a comprehensive and definitive ethics casebook for mental health professionals...read more

Product Description: Does your young daughter talk endlessly about invisible friends, dragons in the basement, and monsters in the closet? Is your teenager about to start high school or being victimized by bullies? Is your son mortally afraid of certain insects or of injections at the doctor's office? Compiled by two seasoned clinical psychologists, The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together articles by recognized experts who provide you with the information you need to help your child navigate the many trying problems that typically afflict young people...read more

Product Description: All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective treatments. But with this comes the challenge of wading through the overwhelming amount of scientific research and integrating it with clinical expertise and patient values...read more

Product Description: Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity. Good intentions are important, but unfortunately, they do not always protect the practitioner and client from breaches in ethical conduct...read more

Product Description: CEASE PROMOTION OF THIS BOOK AS OF 7/3/97!!!! Developed around the ethics code of the American Psychological Association, Ethics in Psychology heightens the awareness of ethical standards within psychology and shows how these standards apply to specific situations...read more

Product Description: This book was created to help therapists and therapists-in-training explore the myths and taboo topics that weaken their practice and cause anxiety, discomfort, and confusion. Some of these topics include feeling incompetent; making mistakes; getting caught off guard by fee entanglements; becoming enraged at patients; managing illness; understanding sexual arousal and impulses; praying with patients as part of therapy; feeling ashamed; being fired; and not knowing what to do...read more

Product Description: Most professional forensic literature addresses the assessment of adults yet neglects the necessary differences that arise when working with minors. Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children presents the reader with essential knowledge and practical suggestions regarding the forensic assessment of minors involved in a variety of legal applications...read more

Product Description: Here is the revised and expanded edition of the indispensable companion for every mental health practitioner. Improved over the first edition by input and feedback from clinicians and program directors, the Psychologists' Desk Reference, Second Edition presents an even larger variety of information required in daily practice in one easy-to-use resource...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The papers presented in this special issue address significant ethical issues involving substance abuse research, confidentiality, community responsibility, and primary prevention programs. As the introductory paper by Dorita Sewell explains, at least one federal agency engaged in sensitive psycho-social research assumed responsibility for strengthening its ethical responsibility...read more

Product Description: This special issue consists of a set of papers originally presented by the respective authors as participants in a symposium titled, "The Science and Politics of Recovered Memories." The symposium was organized by this journal's editor to provide a forum for the voices of people who have most often been stifled in the debate that has been characterized as the "memory wars": the thoughtful clinicians and advocates for the genuine victims...read more

Product Description: Psychologists today must deal with a broad range of ethical issues--from charging fees to maintaining a client's confidentiality, and from conducting research to respecting clients, colleagues, and students. As the field of psychology has grown in size and scope, the role of ethics has become more important and complex whether the psychologist is involved in teaching, counseling, research, or practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dramatic evolution in the use of computers and electronic communication has presented new problems and new challenges insofar as ethical conduct is concerned. It seemed only natural that Ethics & Behavior should venture into cyberspace to explore some of these novel and emerging issues...read more

Product Description: This special issue presents a series of articles on the general theme of whistleblowing and misconduct in science. Coverage includes: a chronicle of documents and public statements used as a fascinating means for approaching a complex case of alleged scientific misconduct and its aftermath; a complex problem involving the accuracy of research reports with significant bearing on public policy; a firsthand account of attempted suppression of whistleblowing in biomedical research and the long-term costs to the whistleblower...read more

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Product Description: This compendium of scholarly articles provides pediatricians, administrators, and interns with an illustration of 'how pediatric psychology is done.' Both classics of the field as well as recent, cutting edge research have been selected from the pages of the prestigious Journal of Pediatric Psychology, and set into historical and clinical contexts...read more