A Legal and Ethical Review of Patient Responsibilities and Psychotherapist Duties

The ethics and standards of practice literature has long focused on the duties that psychotherapists owe their patients. While this has been valuable to the profession, it has created a circumstance in which psychotherapists have focused on their duties and responsibilities to their patients with li...

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Published in:Professional psychology, research and practice research and practice, 2011-04, Vol.42 (2), p.160-168
Main Authors: Younggren, Jeffrey N, Fisher, Mary Alice, Foote, William E, Hjelt, Stephen E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abandonment
Ethics
Human
Informed Consent
Professional Ethics
Professional standards
Psychotherapists
Psychotherapy
Responsibilities
Responsibility
Therapeutic Alliance
Therapists
Treatment Termination
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Summary:The ethics and standards of practice literature has long focused on the duties that psychotherapists owe their patients. While this has been valuable to the profession, it has created a circumstance in which psychotherapists have focused on their duties and responsibilities to their patients with little understanding or respect for how the conduct of a patient can impact those factors. These articles will review these factors from both an ethical and legal perspective. In addition, all of the articles discuss the premise that, while the psychotherapist has the primary responsibilities when rendering treatment to a patient, the treatment alliance is actually a dynamic that changes depending upon the conduct of both the psychotherapist and the patient.
ISSN:0735-7028
1939-1323
DOI:10.1037/a0023142