Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling

<p>Gamino and Ritter do an excellent job of providing cogent advice and helpful suggestions for how professionals can manage ethical dilemmas that arise from the practice of grief counseling.</p> -</b>J. William Worden</b> PhD ABPP<br> Clinical Psychologist Laguna Niguel California Author Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy 4th Edition (From the Foreword)<br> <p><b>Essential reading for grief counselors mental health clinicians death educators hospice workers clergy funeral directors and social workers.</b> <p>Grief counselors are confronted daily with a host of serious ethical dilemmas some so critical that they can drastically change the course of a counselor's practice and career. This practical and authoritative guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for navigating the difficult ethical issues grief counselors confront daily with clients. These include confidentiality end-of-life issues intimacies with clients challenges posed by unnatural deaths spiritual and cultural considerations and many more. <p>To tackle these issues head on Gamino and Ritter present the Five P Model a customized process for ethical decision-making that will help counselors outline a specific step-by-step course of action to respond to the ethical dilemma at hand. The book is also rich with case examples both hypothetical and real-life to demonstrate how to implement the Five P Model in practice and apply it to various ethical dilemmas. <p><b>Among the key topics discussed:</b><br> <ul> <li>How to address ethical problems posed by Internet counseling such as authenticating identity securing confidentiality and intervening in a crisis <li>Death competence on the part of the counselor and how the counselor's own experience of grieving can inform counseling practice <li>Guidance on how to report a colleague or face a complaint <li>How to meet ethical obligations towards clients when moving or closing a practice </ul>