Quagmires for Clinical Psychology and Executive Coaching? Ethical Considerations and Practice Challenges

As the coaching field burgeons, both the mental health and coaching professionals, and their respective professions, face a myriad of potential quagmires, especially if the unique challenges encountered are ignored. After a short introduction and presentation on ethics and morals related to executiv...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The American psychologist 2016-04, Vol.71 (3), p.216-235
Main Author: Gebhardt, Judith Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Certification
Clinical Practice
Clinical Psychology
Clinicians
Coaching
Codes of Ethics
Confidentiality
Core competencies
Credentialing
Ethical dilemmas
Ethics
Ethics, Professional
Executive Coaching
Fees & charges
Human
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Licensing
Mental health
Mentoring - ethics
Personal relationships
Professional-Patient Relations - ethics
Psychology, Clinical - ethics
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - ethics
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:As the coaching field burgeons, both the mental health and coaching professionals, and their respective professions, face a myriad of potential quagmires, especially if the unique challenges encountered are ignored. After a short introduction and presentation on ethics and morals related to executive coaching and clinical therapy, a discussion follows on the lengthy and intimate relationship between executive coaching and psychology. Next are definitions and comparisons and 6 areas that are potential quagmires. This includes roles, skill sets/core competencies, education/training, licensing/credentialing-certification, governing bodies and confidentiality, and fees/reimbursement. Each section includes a discussion and several questions to highlight potentially problematic areas, practice challenges, and/or ethical issues, followed with brief responses. This paper concludes with the inquiry, "Where do we go from here?"
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/a0039806