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Confidentiality and Record Keeping in Counselling and Psychotherapy: 0
Author(s): Tim Bond (Author), Barbara Mitchels (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 168 pages
- ISBN-10: 1412912709
- ISBN-13: 9781412912709
Book Description
`This book is an original, insightful, comprehensive and practical guide for all working in the field…a must read for any counsellor or psychotherapist or anybody else working in the field of psychological therapies′ – Professor Cary L. Cooper, CBE, President of BACP
`There are few legal issues as important to clients and their therapists as confidentiality and record keeping. This book is essential reading for all counsellors and psychotherapists′ – Esther Rantzen, Chair & Founder of Childline and Vice President of BACP
Confidentiality is an essential condition of counselling and psychotherapy that enables clients to talk honestly and openly about their situation. As a core aspect of everyday practice, therapists need to understand both the legal and ethical implications of providing confidentiality and of keeping records concerning their clients.
Confidentiality and Record Keeping in Counselling and Psychotherapy provides a practical introduction to the topic, containing guidance on:
– why and how records should be kept
– how to balance therapeutic benefits from keeping records with potential legal ramifications
– confidentiality agreements with clients in a variety of therapeutic settings
– confidentiality in training and supervision.
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About the Author
Tim Bond is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and former Visiting Professor to the University of Malta. He has a longstanding commitment to researching and writing about professional ethics for the talking therapies and promoting mental well-being. He is a former consultant to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy on professional ethics and standards. Now retired from practice he has more time to reflect on current ethical issues for counselling when not in his studio painting or undertaking moth surveys.
Dr Barbara Mitchels, is a practising psychotherapist and a Fellow of BACP. A retired solicitor, Barbara , combines the professions of law and therapy in CPD workshops, providing a specialist consultancy service for counselling professionals and the BACP and contributions to the BACP’s Good Practice in Action Legal Guidance series. She led the writing of the Ethical Guidelines for Research in the Counselling Professions (BACP 2018a), and other recent publications include Children and Vulnerable Witnesses in Court: A Practice Handbook (Wiley, Simmonds and Hill 2018).
