Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively - Hardcover

Hedges, Lawrence E.

 
9780765702906: Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0765702908 ISBN 13: 9780765702906
Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

In this litigious age, all psychotherapists must protect themselves against the possibility of legal action; malpractice insurance is insufficient and does not begin to address the complexity and the enormity of this critical problem. In this book, Dr. Lawrence E. Hedges urges clinicians to practice defensively and provides a course of action that equips them to do so. After working with over a hundred psycho-therapists and attorneys who have fought unwarranted legal and ethical complaints from clients, he has made the fruits of his work available to all therapists. In addition to identifying those patients prone to presenting legal problems, Dr. Hedges provides a series of consent forms (included in the book and on the accompanying disk), a compelling rationale for using them, and a means of easily introducing them into clinical practice. This book is a wake–up call, a practical, clinically sound response to a frightening reality, and an absolute necessity for all therapists in practice today.

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About the Author

Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP, is the leader of a thirty-year clinical research project into the origins of human relationships at the Listening Perspectives Study Center in Orange, California. Dr. Hedges travels widely, lecturing and consulting with psychotherapists on their most difficult―to―treat clients. His work on how early childhood trauma impacts the psychotherapeutic relationship has led him to a keen awareness of how the growing consumer complaint and litigational processes that surround the practice of psychotherapy today are threatening to undermine it and to destroy its effectiveness.

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Publisher
Jason Aronson Publishers
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0765702908
ISBN 13 
9780765702906
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
391

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