Risk Management

An Online Course:
Ethics Of Risk Management

 

General Resources for Ethical Risk Management

• Know the Warning Signs of Suicide. American Association of Suicidology (2017).
• What kind of issue is it? A “four-bin” approach to ethics consultation is helpful in practice settings. Monitor in Psychology
• Review of boundaries in therapy
• Ethical Risk Management – Guidelines
• The Dark Side of Professional Ethics, by By Samuel Knapp, PhD, Mitchell M. Handelsman, PhD, Michael C. Gottlieb, PhD, and Leon D. VandeCreek, PhD
• Boundary Violations: Do Some Contended Standards of Care Fail to Encompass Commonplace Procedures of Humanistic, Behavioral and Eclectic Psychotherapies?
• Codes of ethics regarding different therapeutic boundaries and other risk management issues
• Standard of Care in Psychotherapy and Counseling
• Changes in the field towards more reasonable view of risk management

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Guidelines that Include Ethical Risk Management

• Bartering
• Dual Relationships
• Ethical Risk Management
• Fees
• Gifts
• Record Keeping
• Termination
• Touch

 

Additional Ethical Risk Management Related Articles

• Touch in Therapy
• Self-Disclosure
• Gifts

 

References

• Audet, C. T. (2011). Client perspectives of therapist self-disclosure: Violating boundaries or removing barriers?. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 24(2), 85-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2011.589602
• Bennett, B. E., Bryant, B. K., VandenBos, G. R., & Greenwood, A. (1990). Professional liability and risk management. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Bongar, B, & Sullivan. (2013). The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care, Third Edition. APA Books
• Bonitz, V. (2008). Use of physical touch in the “talking cure”: A journey to the outskirts of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 45(3), 391-404. doi:10.1037/a0013311
• Bundy, C, & Schreiber, M & Pascualy, M (2014). Discharging your patients who display contingency-based suicidality: 6 steps. Current Psychiatry. 2014 January;13(1):e1-e3
• Caudill, C. O. (2004). Therapists under fire. Retrieved June 1, 2004, from https://www.cphins.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=39
• Doverspike, W. F. (1999). Ethical risk management: Guidelines for practice, a practical ethics handbook. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Press.
• Gutheil, T. G., & Gabbard, G. O. (1993). The concept of boundaries in clinical practice: Theoretical and risk-management dimensions. American Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 188-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.2.188
• Jobes, D. A., & Berman, A. L. (1993). Suicide and malpractice liability: Assessing and revising policies, procedures, and practice in outpatient settings. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24(1), 91-99.
• Lazarus, A. A. (2013). How certain boundaries and ethics diminish therapeutic effectiveness. In D. A. Sisti, A. L. Caplan, & H. Rimon-Greenspan (Eds.), Applied ethics in mental health care: An interdisciplinary reader (pp. 321-328). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Nickel, M. (2004). Professional boundaries: The dilemma of dual and multiple relationships in rural clinical practice. Consulting and Clinical Psychology Journal, 1, 17–22.
• Reamer, F. G. (2013). Social work in a digital age: Ethical and risk management challenges. Social work, 58(2), 163-172. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swt003
• Reamer, F. G. (2014). Risk management in social work: Preventing professional malpractice, liability, and disciplinary action. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Reamer, F. G. (2017). Ethical and risk management issues in the use of touch. In J. A. Courtney & R. D. Nolan (Eds.), Touch in child counseling and play therapy: An ethical and clinical guide. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Stolberg, R., & Bongar, B. (2009). Assessment of Suicide Risk. In (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment: Oxford University Press.
• Truscott, D., Evans, J., & Mansell, S. (1995). Outpatient psychotherapy with dangerous clients: A model for clinical decision making. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 26(5), 484-490.
• Willer, J (2014). The Beginning Psychotherapist’s Companion, Second Edition. New York, Oxford University Press.
• Williams, M. H. (1997). Boundary violations: Do some contended standards of care fail to encompass commonplace procedures of Humanistic, Behavioral, and Eclectic Psychotherapies? Psychotherapy, 34(3), 238-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0087717
• Williams, M. H. (2007). Risk Management: How Your Malpractice Insurer Created Testimony Against You. Symposium Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, August.
• Williams, M. H. (n.d.). Total Risk Management. Retrieved from http://www.williamspsychologicalservices.com/SAdocs/trm.html
• Woody, R. H. (1988a). Fifty Ways to Avoid Malpractice: A Guidebook for Mental Health Professionals. Sarasota, Florida: Professional Resource Exchange.
• Woody, R. H. (1988b). Protecting Your Mental Health Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• Woody, R. H. (1997). Legally Safe Mental Health Practice: Psychological Questions and Answers. Madison, Connecticut: Psychosocial Press.
• Younggren, J. N., & Gottlieb, M. C. (2004). Managing risk when contemplating multiple relationships. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 35, 255–260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7028.35.3.255
• Zur, O. (2003). HIPAA wants you! Eleven reasons to become compliant and eleven simple ways to achieve compliance. The Independent Practitioner, 23, 194-198. Retrieved from http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cpapsych.org/resource/resmgr/imported/files/hipaa/hipaa-reasons.pdf
• Zur, O. (2004). Bartering in psychotherapy and counseling: Complexities, case studies and guidelines. Zur Institute online. Retrieved from: https://www.zurinstitute.com/bartertherapy.html
• Zur, O. (2005). Dumbing down of psychology: Manufactured consent about the depravity of dual relationships in therapy. In R. H. Wright & N. A. Cummings, (Eds.) (2005). Destructive trends in mental health: The well-intentioned road to harm (pp. 253-282). New York, NY: Brunner-Routledge.
• Zur, O. (2007a). Boundaries in Psychotherapy: Ethical and Clinical Explorations. Washington, DC: APA Books.
• Zur, O. (2007b). The ethical eye: Don’t let “risk management” undermine your professional approach. Psychotherapy Networker, 48-56.
• Management: How Risk Management Guidelines Can Increase Risk And Decrease Clinical Effectiveness. Retrieved from https://www.zurinstitute.com/riskmanagement.html
• Zur, O. (Ed.) (2017). Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy. New York: Routledge.
• Zur, O. & Gonzalez, S. (2002). Multiple relationships in military psychology. In A. A. Lazarus and O. Zur (Eds.) Dual relationships and psychotherapy (pp. 315-328). New York: Springer.

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