The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics

Applied ethics analyzed through real-life scenarios across a wide range of practice settings, populations, and topics.

Mark M. Leach (Edited by), Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel (Edited by)

9781107124547, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 March 2018

714 pages, 9 b/w illus. 6 tables
26 x 18.4 x 4.3 cm, 1.44 kg

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics is a valuable resource for psychologists and graduate students hoping to further develop their ethical decision making beyond more introductory ethics texts. The book offers real-world ethical vignettes and considerations. Chapters cover a wide range of practice settings, populations, and topics, and are written by scholars in these settings. Chapters focus on the application of ethics to the ethical dilemmas in which mental health and other psychology professionals sometimes find themselves. Each chapter introduces a setting and gives readers a brief understanding of some of the potential ethical issues at hand, before delving deeper into the multiple ethical issues that must be addressed and the ethical principles and standards involved. No other book on the market captures the breadth of ethical issues found in daily practice and focuses entirely on applied ethics in psychology.

Part I. Ethical Issues in Specific Settings and Challenging Populations: 1. Ethical considerations for working with military service personnel
2. Ethical issues in addressing mental health concerns in schools
3. Ethical issues in providing mental health services to college students
4. Ethical issues when working in hospital settings
5. Ethics in a rural context
6. Ethics and private practice
7. Ethics on the edge: working with clients who are persistently suicidal
8. Applied addiction ethics
9. Ethics and clients who have experienced sexual trauma and intimate partner violence
10. Ethical issues in the treatment of eating disorders
11. Ethical considerations in group psychotherapy
12. Ethical issues in couple and family therapy
Part II. Ethical Issues in Working with Diverse Populations: 13. Ethical issues in working with older adults
14. Ethical issues in working with individuals with disability
15. Ethical issues when working with people of color
16. Aging: ethical issues in working with diverse populations
17. Applied research in diverse communities: ethical issues and considerations
18. Ethical issues and challenges working with religious individuals and organizations: providing culturally competent professional mental health services
19. Ethical issues associated with mental health interventions for immigrants and refugees
20. Ethical issues in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients: a cognitive developmental model of ethical competence
Part III. Legal, Research, and Organizational Issues: 21. Major legal cases that have influenced mental health ethics
22. Ethical considerations in forensic evaluations in family court
23. Ethical issues in online research
24. Ethical issues in international research
25. Clinical supervision for multicultural and professional competence
26. Disciplinary supervision: ethical challenges for supervisors
27. Ethical issues in psychological consultation
Part IV. Emerging Ethical Issues in Professional Practice and Next Steps: 28. Genetic testing and ethical considerations: cases involving adolescents and young adults and cancer
29. Ethical considerations for behavioral health professionals in primary care settings
30. Therapy with children and adolescents in an era of social media and instant electronic communication
31. Ethics and ethical decision making in coaching: four case scenarios
32. Ethical issues in prevention
33. Fostering ethical mental health practice across diverse settings and populations: concluding thoughts.

Subject Areas: Health psychology [MBNH9], Psychology [JM], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]