Ethical issues in child and adolescent psychotherapy: a clinical review.
Child and adolescent psychotherapy has made great progress in recent years. With this progress, ethical issues have emerged that need to be addressed in the Indian setting. This article looks at various ethical issues in child and adolescent psychotherapy specific to Indian practitioners. The involvement of parents in psychotherapy often blurs therapeutic boundaries and issues related to confidentiality. Practitioners working in hospital and school settings are faced with similar problems. The advent of the internet and e-mail has resulted in new concerns for psychiatrists, related to communication via those media. Issues related to parenting, culture and development patterns, along with personal issues for the therapist, have been discussed.
de Sousa
Avinash
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D010290:Parents; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000941:ethics*; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D019366:Western World