Barbara Mitchels, Tim Bond

Essential Law for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This third book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists series provides a user-friendly guide to the law for all those practising and training in the counselling profession.

Barbara Mitchels and Tim Bond make legal issues relevant and bring them alive for the practitioner. Packed with practical examples, this book covers essential areas of law for practitioners including

-professional ethics and standards

-negligence

-contracts and premises

-employment and insurance

-dealing with legal claims

-professional diligence.

Other features include a glossary, tables and flowcharts as well as a comprehensive index of resources and organisations for additional information and guidance. This readable book helps practice managers, counsellors and psychotherapists to recognise, understand and address legal issues that may arise in their practice, and assists them in finding any additional resources they may need.

Demystifying the law, this book is an authoritative guide for therapists, including those working in private practice, as well as being important reading for all those studying counselling, psychotherapy or clinical psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446242636
• Artikelnr.: 42154249

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Law and Ethics
Public Interest and Professional Standards
Liability in Tort: Negligence
Contracts
Therapists and Criminal Activity
Insurance
Premises
Self-Employed Therapists
Therapist as Employer / Employee
Dealing with Legal Claims

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Law and Ethics
Public Interest and Professional Standards
Liability in Tort: Negligence
Contracts
Therapists and Criminal Activity
Insurance
Premises
Self-Employed Therapists
Therapist as Employer / Employee
Dealing with Legal Claims

Rezensionen

"Essential Law for Counsellors and Psychotherapists provides a comprehensive and easily readable text for all practitioners practising the talking therapies. It will prove to be an essential reference in this ever more demanding field where therapists are coming into contact with the law in their every day work." - Sandi Toksvig, Vice President of BACP, writer and broadcaster