Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-404) and index.
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Introduction -- Ethical decision making : the five p model -- Death competence -- Consent -- Confidentiality -- Ethical dilemmas at end of life -- Multiple relationships in thanatology -- Ethnic, cultural, and spiritual considerations -- Grief counseling on the internet -- Ethical controversies in grief counseling -- Potential pitfalls of public service -- Grief counselor as expert witness -- Moving or closing a practice -- Reporting a colleague or facing a complaint -- Epilogue.
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Grief counselors are confronted daily with a host of serious ethical dilemmas, some so critical that they can drastically change the course of a counselor's practice and career. This practical and authoritative guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for navigating the difficult ethical issues grief counselors confront daily with clients. These include confidentiality, end-of-life issues, intimacies with clients, challenges posed by unnatural deaths, spiritual and cultural considerations, and many more. To tackle these issues head on, Gamino and Ritter present the Five P Model, a customized process for ethical decision-making that will help counselors outline a specific, step-by-step course of action to respond to the ethical dilemma at hand. The book is also rich with case examples, both hypothetical and real-life, to demonstrate how to implement the Five P Model in practice, and apply it to various ethical dilemmas.