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Legal Issues across counselling and psychotherapy settings: a guide to practice
Legal Issues across counselling and psychotherapy settings: a guide to practice
Barbara Mitchels & Tim Bond
Published in association with SAGE Publications
Publication Date – September 2011
BACP Members £18 (Special Introductory Offer)
Non – Members £21.99
This fourth book in the Legal Resource series and 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:
- Private practice
- Commercial organisations – Employee Assistance Programmes
- Voluntary sector
- Government Health settings (NHS): primary and secondary
- Private Health settings: primary and secondary
- Education / Schools /FE/HE
- Social services
- 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.
Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists is a series of highly practical books, themed around broad topics, which reflect the most "frequently asked questions" put to BACP.The following books in the series are also available to purchase from the BACP bookshop.
Therapists in Court, by Tim Bond and Amanpreet SandhuConfidentiality, Record Keeping in Counselling and Psychotherapy, by Tim Bond & Barbara Mitchels & Essential Law for Counselling and Psychotherapists.
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*Offer ends 31 December 2011