Moral and Ethical Framework Appraisal

Table of Contents

Description of the case1

Ethical Issues in the case1

Issues in Legal and Professional Practices3

Ethical decision-making steps in Resolving the Case4

Ethics of Dual Relationships in Psychotherapy6

Appraisal7

Standards of Practice8

Implications for Future Application9

References12

Moral and Ethical Framework Appraisal

Description of the case

This appraisal is based on the handling of different clients by psychologists as they come to them with a diverse range of issues and disorders. The case is about a client who is a 45-year old female. She had undergone a brain surgery, following which she reports symptoms of severe depression. She is also facing a lot of stress in her marital life as her husband does not want to continue being with her anymore. As she goes through the session, she also feels love and gratitude towards me as a therapist. These events lead us to understand the case in full, analyzing different components as we go through her medical history and calls for intervening in the form of relevant strategies to cope up with the situation. Psychology provides extensive application as well as understanding of different behavioral patterns that people show as they go by their lives. These patterns lead to different concepts about how they wish to live and how the surrounding does influences us.

Ethical Issues in the case

In recent years, the attitudes of patients to healthcare professionals underwent gradual but important change. In particular, patients are seeing themselves more as consumers and demanding increased responsibility from their caregivers and practitioners. As a result, it is advisable that psychologists and related practitioners of mental health increase their level of knowledge of ethical and legal considerations in treating the patients and monitoring their recovery too (Pope, 1987). Ethical problems of psychotherapy remain unsolved at the present time, adopt a code of ethics of psychotherapy cannot be on any WPA Congress. There are still unanswered question is whether psychotherapy is a science at all (the fact that the practice - no one doubts) because it operates on an interpretation rather than a scientific explanation.

Psychotherapists respect the dignity and worth of every individual and strive for the preservation and maintenance of basic human rights. They will increase knowledge of human behavior and understanding of self and others, and use this knowledge to improving the welfare of humanity (Pope, 1991). In pursuing these objectives, they undertake to protect the welfare of the people who use their services; people connect with people who use their services (provided that this does not conflict with the needs of patients) and persons participating in or being investigated. Psychotherapists meet with members of their profession and related professions, and undertake, as far as possible and they do not conflict with the interests of their patients, providing them the necessary information and establish relationships mutual respect. They use their skills only for purposes consistent with these values ??and are careful not to allow others to misuse (Lamb & Catanzaro, 1998). Demanding for themselves freedom of information and communication, psychotherapists accept the responsibility that freedom ...