Legal Issues in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Lawyers, psychologists, and therapists who practice in the UK are the contributors to this volume of essays. The topics include guidelines for therapists to ensure their client-patient relationships are clearly legal, the limits of liability against therapists, legal issues that arise in therapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse, proposed regulation of alternative mental health treatments, and the experience of a psychoanalyst subpoenaed to speak in court. Appendices list resources in the UK. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR