Increasingly, counselors are practicing spiritual or complementary interventions. In balance, how counselors use such interventions is under closer examination by law. This effort to protect clients is embedded in ethical and legal principles, but rarely addressed in the mental health literature. This book will fill that gap by offering a clear understanding of the context of the law. Detailed case studies are given in each chapter as a centerpiece to the understanding, interpretation, and application of the laws. The author, with his unique qualifications in legal and spiritual areas, pays critical attention to the issues of culture throughout this resource that includes handy appendices of a legal glossary, abbreviations, literature review, and an exercise on how to find the law.
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A Much Needed Text for Contemporary Social Work Practice,
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This review is from: Sacred Calling, Secular Accountability: Law and Ethics in Complementary and Spiritual Counseling (Hardcover)
I'm a licensed clinical social worker in hospice, with a private practice in money therapy (working with clients on the psychological and spiritual issues underlying their money problems). I speak on the subject of spirituality in social work practice, and was delighted to come across a reference to this book while doing research. It addresses the ethical and legal issues social workers need to consider if they plan to utilize a spiritual or complementary context for, or interventions in, their work (I prefer Edward Canda's alternate term, "cultivations"). This is the only text of its kind of which I'm aware, and it's helped me to deepen and solidify the ethical component of my presentations. I especially enjoyed the discussion on the First Amendment and the idea of an "ethical ecology" (which I teach, but do not express in these terms; nevertheless, it's a concept with which I agree completely). I plan to encourage my students and hospice coworkers to read the book (I also highly recommend another book by Bulllis, "Spirituality in Social Work Practice"). The only complaint I have is that this edition (Paperback, 2001) was poorly edited -- too many typos and phrasings that should have been caught by an editor prior to publication. This makes for uneven reading in many spots, but still doesn't obscure the value of the content.
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Great content, terrible editing,
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This review is from: Sacred Calling, Secular Accountability: Law and Ethics in Complementary and Spiritual Counseling (Paperback)
The content of this handbook is incredibly valuable for anyone in spiritual or complementary counseling. There is some redundancy, but the lessons to be learned bear repeating. My complaint, however, is that the book is LOADED with typos, missing words, poor sentence construction, and other grammatical problems. This book definitely needs a revised edition as I felt that the poor writing detracted quite a bit from the material, even rendering some portions unintelligable.
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1. To explain key concepts in law-jurisdiction, levels of courts, precedence, and stare decisis, the differences between the civil and criminal law, and First Amendment protection and limitations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
complementary counseling, ethical ecology, deprogramming organization, complementary interventions, therapeutic deception, using such interventions, emerging interventions, integrity defense, cultural defense, ritualized abuse, spiritual interventions, suicidal student, secular counselor, religious protections, using spiritual, due process considerations, alternative interventions, religious interventions, mandatory reporters, religious counseling, defamatory remarks, ritual mutilation, magic rock, counselors need, regional reporters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Native American, United States, Associated Press, Roman Catholic, Equal Access Act, North Carolina, Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington State, American Psychological Association, Paramahansa Yogananda, Department of Professional Regulation, New Age, New Mexico, New Testament, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Duty Determination, Gay-Straight Alliance Club, Pentecostal Christian New!
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1. To explain key concepts in law-jurisdiction, levels of courts, precedence, and stare decisis, the differences between the civil and criminal law, and First Amendment protection and limitations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
complementary counseling, ethical ecology, deprogramming organization, complementary interventions, therapeutic deception, using such interventions, emerging interventions, integrity defense, cultural defense, ritualized abuse, spiritual interventions, suicidal student, secular counselor, religious protections, using spiritual, due process considerations, alternative interventions, religious interventions, mandatory reporters, religious counseling, defamatory remarks, ritual mutilation, magic rock, counselors need, regional reporters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Native American, United States, Associated Press, Roman Catholic, Equal Access Act, North Carolina, Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington State, American Psychological Association, Paramahansa Yogananda, Department of Professional Regulation, New Age, New Mexico, New Testament, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Duty Determination, Gay-Straight Alliance Club, Pentecostal Christian New!
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- Spirituality in Social Work Practice by Ronald K. Bullis in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Art of Tantra (World of Art) by Philip S. Rawson in Back Matter
- Selected Poems by Stevie Smith in Back Matter
- Selected Poems by Kenneth Patchen in Back Matter
- The varieties of psychedelic experience, by Robert E. L Masters on page 30
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