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Full-Text Articles in Psychology
Ensuring Ethical Practice: Guidelines For Mental Health Counselors In Private Practice, Cecile Brennan
Ensuring Ethical Practice: Guidelines For Mental Health Counselors In Private Practice, Cecile Brennan
Cecile Brennan
Since mental health counselors in private practice often work in relative isolation, it is especially important that they attend to ethical issues. This article reviews four dimensions of ethical knowledge: the foundation of ethical actions, counselors as agents of ethical action, the need to establish a decision-making process, and the importance of sustaining ethical practice by keeping current with clinical developments and attending to their own well-being.
Field Placement: Where The Rubber Hits The Road, Cecile Brennan, Paula Britton, Christopher Faiver
Field Placement: Where The Rubber Hits The Road, Cecile Brennan, Paula Britton, Christopher Faiver
Cecile Brennan
No abstract provided.
Improving Awareness Of Vulnerabilities To Ethical Challenges: A Family Systems Approach, Cecile Brennan, Jennifer Eulberg, Paula Britton
Improving Awareness Of Vulnerabilities To Ethical Challenges: A Family Systems Approach, Cecile Brennan, Jennifer Eulberg, Paula Britton
Cecile Brennan
Current ethical decision-making models focus principally on cognitive factors and less on the emotional aspects of ethical challenges. This practice reflects a reliance on knowledge-driven, modernist approaches that emphasize objectivity and the primacy of rational thinking. Newer postmodern and constructivist approaches emphasize the need to consider the counselor holistically, as a thinking/feeling being who brings into the present moment the accumulated weight of the past. In order to bridge the gap between a cognitive, modernist approach and a feeling, experience-based postmodern approach, the authors outline an instructional approach that uses family systems theory to assist counselors in becoming conscious about …
Globalism, Postmodernism & The Dislocation Of The Self, Cecile Brennan
Globalism, Postmodernism & The Dislocation Of The Self, Cecile Brennan
Cecile Brennan
No abstract provided.
Ethics Beyond The Obvious: Psychologically Based Ethics. Instruction, Cecile Brennan
Ethics Beyond The Obvious: Psychologically Based Ethics. Instruction, Cecile Brennan
Cecile Brennan
No abstract provided.
Positivism-Plus: A Constructivist Approach To Teaching Psychopharmacology To Counselors, Cecile Brennan, Elliott Ingersoll
Positivism-Plus: A Constructivist Approach To Teaching Psychopharmacology To Counselors, Cecile Brennan, Elliott Ingersoll
Cecile Brennan
In this positivism-plus approach, the chemical and neurobiological bases of psychopharmacology constitute a pervasive, positivist construction of a reality that influences client behavior. However, is it argued that this biological version of reality must be integrated into the work of counseling, that is, it must be adapted to the environmental and intrapsychic contexts that clients and counselors co-construct. This chapter reviews the relationships among the medical model, constructivism, and counselor training, describes the general components of the psychopharmacology course, then discusses more specifically the relationship between the positivist and positivist-plus elements
Beyond Theory And Practice: A Postmodern Perspective, Cecile Brennan
Beyond Theory And Practice: A Postmodern Perspective, Cecile Brennan
Cecile Brennan
Provides insights into chaos theory and postmodernism as they apply to the work of therapists to resolve the conflict between theory and practice. Tempering of theoretical orientation by postmodern perspective; Encouragement of therapist to have a theoretical orientation