Legal Issues Across Counselling & Psychotherapy Settings
eBook - ePub

Legal Issues Across Counselling & Psychotherapy Settings

A Guide for Practice

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Legal Issues Across Counselling & Psychotherapy Settings

A Guide for Practice

About this book

This fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors & Psychotherapists series provides practical examples and applications of the law as it applies to therapists in the many different contexts of their work.

Helping practitioners move between different practice settings, the book explores how the legal framework within which they work varies across contexts. It introduces practitioners to the statutory structure and obligations of different types of counselling and psychotherapy services, setting out implications for practice such as liability and accountability. Work settings covered include:

o Private practice

o Commercial organisations - Employee Assistance Programmes

o Voluntary sector

o Government Health settings (NHS): primary and secondary

o Private Health settings: primary and secondary

o Education / Schools /FE/HE

o Social services

o Police and Home Office

For each setting, the book considers the statutory basis, how the legal framework impacts on services to clients, systemic issues such as bullying or prejudicial discrimination, responsibility for decision making, and the restrictions and empowerment of therapists and clients within the context of that setting.

This book is an essential reference for counselling practitioners working across a range of practice settings, including those with portfolio careers. It is also important reading for all those studying counselling, psychotherapy or clinical psychology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of checklists, figures and boxes
  6. About the authors
  7. Praise for the book
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Private Practice
  11. 2 Commercial and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Provision
  12. 3 Voluntary Work
  13. 4 Working with Adults in the Context of Social Care Agencies
  14. 5 Education
  15. 6 The National Health Service (NHS) and Private Health Care
  16. 7 Counselling in Spiritual or Pastoral Settings
  17. 8 Working with Children and Young People
  18. 9 Adoption Support Services
  19. 10 Forensic Work
  20. 11 Counselling in Police and Home Office Settings
  21. List of Cases, Practice Directions, Government and Professional Guidance, Statutes, Statutory Instruments and EEC Directives
  22. Useful Resources
  23. Glossary
  24. References and Further Reading
  25. Index