ETHICAL RISK MANAGEMENT:
GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE
WILLIAM F. DOVERSPIKE, PhD
The author offers a practical approach to integrating ethical
principles into clinical practice, balancing scholarly analysis with the
practical application of ethical principles. This book presents useful
risk-management strategies based on a conceptual framework which can be applied
to a variety of clinical situations. Also included are an ethics checklist
and numerous office forms for putting ethics into practice.
As a supplement to the book, Ethical Risk Management: Guidelines for Practice, an optional 3-credit home study continuing education program is available. To obtain credit, you must correctly answer 80% of the 30 multiple-choice test items.
After successful completion of the program, you will receive written verification for submission to your state licensing board. To participate in this program, you must own or have access to the book, Ethical Risk Management: Guidelines for Practice.
"Ethical behavior is about so much more than avoiding bad behavior. Ethics is about skillfully walking through the shades of gray of a decision-making paradigm.... The author takes on his topics in a fireside chat style rather than a didactic, lecture style. This format allows multi-layered subjects, such as informed consent, managed care, and responding to complaints, to be discussed and understood as though they were common sense all along. There are many great quips and truisms offered to the reader that breathe life into the code of ethics."
-Linda Campbell, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Counseling, University of Georgia
"Reading Dr. Doverspike's book...is like having that 'lunch with a trusted colleague.' It is friendly yet informative and helps you draw your own line in the sand. In a conversational way you are drawn into your own thought provoking analysis of past, present or contemplated actions.... A strong value system may be a powerful deterrent but is often insufficient, and as a result we see good people make bad decisions. In the end it is not a lapse of attention that causes the problem but rather a seduction of judgment. The great value of the text is how it leads us through a discussion of how to anticipate the behavior hidden in our ethical blind spots."
-H. Ted Ballard, Georgia State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, Atlanta GA