Legal Issues in Counselling & Psychotherapy

by Peter Jenkins

Overview

Lawyers, psychologists, and therapists who practice in the UK are the contributors to this volume of essays. The topics include guidelines for therapists to ensure their client-patient relationships are clearly legal, the limits of liability against therapists, legal issues that arise in therapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse, proposed regulation of alternative mental health treatments, and the experience of a psychoanalyst subpoenaed to speak in court. Appendices list resources in the UK. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761954804
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/26/2002
Series:	Ethics in Practice Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Peter Jenkins is a counsellor, trainer, supervisor and researcher. He has worked as a student and staff counsellor in college and university settings for the past thirty years. During this time, he has developed a particular interest in exploring ethical, professional and legal issues in counselling practice. He has run over two hundred workshops on these topics, aimed at addressing the current concerns of practitioners. He has been a member of both the BACP Professional Conduct Committee and the UKCP Ethics Committee, and has published around one hundred articles on law and ethics in the professional counselling press. His publications include Therapy with Children, as co-author with Dr Debbie Daniels (Second edition, Sage, 2010), Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law (Second edition, Sage 2007), online modules for Counselling Mind-Ed and other training material, such as Counselling Confidentiality and the Law (2013, Counselling DVDs).

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	vii
	Acknowledgements	x
	Introduction	1
Part I	The Legal Context of Therapeutic Practice	13
1	Confidentiality: A case study	15
2	Psychoanalyst subpoenaed	21
3	Legal pitfalls in counselling and psychotherapy practice, and how to avoid them	24
4	Taking legal action against a therapist for professional negligence	34
5	Transparent recording: Therapists and the Data Protection Act 1998	45
6	Preparing reports and presenting evidence in court: A guide for counsellors and psychotherapists	57
Part II	Legal Challenges for Therapy	73
7	Regulating counselling and psychotherapy: Lessons from complementary medicine	75
8	Legal Issues in therapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse	88
9	Counselling in legal settings: Provision for jury members, vulnerable witnesses and victims of crime	105
10	The law of confidentiality--a solution or part of the problem?	123
11	False memories or recovered memories? Legal and ethical implications for therapists	144
12	The implications of the Human Rights Act 1998 for counsellors and psychotherapists	165
Appendix 1	The Academy of Experts: Model form of Expert's Report	173
Appendix 2	Therapy notes and the law	176
Appendix 3	Relevant organisations	183
	References	188
	Table of Cases	188
	Table of Statutes	189
	Index	190