Essential reading for grief counselors, mental health clinicians, death educators, hospice workers, clergy, funeral directors, and social workers.
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.
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.
Among the key topics discussed:
Louis A. Gamino, PhD, ABPP, FT is on staff with the Scott & White Clinic and Hospital in Temple, Texas. Dr. Gamino is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine.
R. Hal Ritter, Jr., PhD, LPC, LMFT is an ordained Baptist minister who received his PhD from Baylor University with a specialty in the psychology of religion and ethics. He is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine in the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. Dr. Ritter currently serves as the Family Medicine Residency Behavioral Science Educator at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. He also serves on the Ethics Committee for the Scott & White Memorial Hospital.