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Updates from the 2010 Meeting of the APA Council

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Norine Johnson and I are your representatives to APA Council of Representatives. We bring you the decisions and direction of APA in our report immediately after the Council meeting. We also want your input and your opinions before we go to Council in order to accurately represent your ideas and thoughts [...]

Ask The Ethicist: Phone Therapy

Question by Dr. Betty Scott Noble.
I have a female client I have seen for several years (abusive marriage then divorce and a very recent re-marriage). She has moved with her new husband about two hours away and does all her work by computer, so she doesn’t come to Atlanta anymore. She asked if I could [...]

Ask the Ethicist Blog

Ask the Ethicist is a feature on the website of the APA Division of Psychotherapy that provides a forum for asking questions involving ethics and professional practice issues. All psychotherapists face ethically challenging dilemmas and situations in their professional work, whether it be in providing psychotherapy, in conducting research, in supervision or consultation, or [...]

Ask The Ethicist: The Role of Technology in Psychotherapy

Linda asks a number of very important questions about the role the use of technology in research and practice, to include the recording (audio and/or visual) psychotherapy sessions, supervision, peer consultation, research, and presentations.  Additional questions concern the role of informed consent when making such recordings, the role of HIPAA and other confidentiality and privacy [...]

Ask the Ethicist: A Request For An Anonymous Consultation

Question by Dr. Overtree
I have a client referral who is requesting, via an anonymous email message, to be screened by me as a possible patient anonymously. Although he states he is not suicidal or homicidal, nor does he meet any of the criteria for possible involuntary hospitalization (by his own report), he remains extremely concerned [...]

Ask the Ethicist: Therapist Shopping in a Client with PTSD

Question from Dr. Magnavita
I have been treating a man with complex PTSD who started to see me after his transference feelings toward his previous psychotherapist became unmanageable. He sees me infrequently and has consulted with about 5 subsequent therapists who he reports trigger his trauma. He frequently emails me and occasionally sees me for a [...]

2009 44(4)

Psychotherapy Bulletin Winter 2009, 44(4)