Standard of Care
Resources & References
An Online Course:
Standard of Care in Psychotherapy & Counseling
Table Of Contents
- The Standard of Care in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Bringing Clarity to an Illusive Standard
- Standard of Care on Physical Touch in Psychotherapy
- Risk Management v. Standard of Care
- Boundary violations: Do some contended standards of care fail to encompass commonplace procedures of Humanistic, Behavioral, and Eclectic Psychotherapies? By Martin Williams, Ph.D.
- Resources regarding multiple aspects of the Standard of Care, including touch, confidentiality, termination and much more
- APA Professional Practice Guidelines
* Professional Practice Guidelines for Occupationally Mandated Psychological Evaluations
* Professional Practice Guidelines for Integrating the Role of Work and Career Into Psychological Practice
* More Guidelines
American Psychiatric Association (ApA), (2004). Practice Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/prac_guide.cfm
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Cukrowicz, K.C., Wingate, L.R., Driscoll, K.A. Joiner Jr., T. E. (2004). A Standard of Care for the Assessment of Suicide Risk and Associated Treatment: The Florida State University Psychology Clinic as an Example. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 34(1), 87-100. doi:10.1023/B:JOCP.0000010915.77490.7
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Harris, E. A. (2002). Legal and Ethics Risks and Risk Management in Professional Psychological Practices. Workshop reader, March, LA.
Halverson, G., & Brownlee, K. (2010). Managing ethical considerations around dual relationships in small rural and remote Canadian communities. International Social Work, 53(2), 247-260.
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Koocher, G. P., & Keith-Spiegel, P. C. (2016). Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions: Professional Standards and Cases (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Koocher, G. P. & Keith-Spiegel, P., (2017). Multiple Relationships in Educational Settings. In Zur, O. (Ed.) Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy. New York: Routledge.
Koocher, G. P. (2004). The myths about empirically validated therapies. Independent Practitioner, 24/2, 62-63.
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Mallory, A., Brown, J., Conner, S., & Henry, U. (2017). Finding what works: New clinicians’ use of standards of care with transgender clients. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 45(1), 27-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2016.1223563
Pynoos, R. S., Fairbank, John A., Steinberg, A. M., Amaya-Jackson, L., Gerrity, E., Mount, M. L., & Maze, J. (2008). The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Collaborating to improve the standard of care. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39(4), 389-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0012551
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Task Force for the Development of Practice Recommendations For The Provision of Humanistic Psychosocial Services. (1997). Division 32, Humanistic Psychology response. Retrieved from www.apa.org/divisions/div32/pdfs/taskfrev.pdf
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
Williams, M. H., (2003). The curse of risk management. The Independent Practitioner, 23 (4), 202-205
Woody, R. H. (1998). Fifty ways to avoid malpractice. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Exchange
Zur, O. (2001). Out-of-office experience: When crossing office boundaries and engaging in dual relationships are clinically beneficial and ethically sound. Independent Practitioner, 21/1, 96-100
Zur, O. (2004). Bartering in psychotherapy and counseling: Complexities, Case Studies and Guidelines. Online publication. Retrieved June 1, 2004 from: https://www.zurinstitute.com/bartertherapy.html
Zur, O. (2007a). Boundaries in Psychotherapy: Ethical and Clinical Explorations. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association – APA Books.
Zur, O. (2007b). Touch In Therapy and The Standard of Care in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Bringing Clarity to Illusive Relationships. U.S. Association of Body Psychotherapy Journal, 6/2, 61-93.
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, New York: Springer, pp. 315-328.