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Ethical Issues In
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Screening & Selection of Group Members Psychological Risks

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Involuntary Participation Personal Psychotherapy

Freedom to Leave a Group

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Group Supervision Confidentiality with Minors

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Social Justice Group Informed Consent

Confidentiality in Groups
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Screening & Selection of Group Members

Is it unethical to fail to screen a prospective group candidates?

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Yalom (2005) lists the Brain-Damaged Individuals, Paranoid, Hypochondriacs

following as poor
Actively addicted to drugs or alcohol
candidates for
heterogenous outpatient
Psychotic Individuals and Antisocial Personalities
intensive therapy group.
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Involuntary Participation

When group attendance is mandatory, make sure clients

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understand their rights and responsibilities.
• Nature and goals of the group
• Right to decline certain activities
• Limits of Confidentiality
• Participation in group will have an effect on them outside of group
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Psychological Risks
Some potential Risks:
• Disruption
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• Invasion of Privacy
• Group Pressure
• Scapegoating
• Misused Confrontation
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Personal Psychotherapy

• Therapy enables us to understand both ourselves

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• Enables us to identify and explore countertransference

reactions.
• Recognize blind spots and biases
• Use our personal attributes effectively.
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Freedom to Leave a Group

• Procedures for leaving a group should be

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explained during the initial session.

• Clients have a responsibility to the group

to explain why they want to leave.
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Group Supervision
• What steps can you take to acquire competence
as a group facilitator?
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• Can you think of ways to minimize the potential risks?

• Does ethical practice demand that group leaders

receive personal therapy?
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Social Justice

• The fair and equitable

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power, resources, and obligations in
society.
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Confidentiality with Minors

• State laws pertaining to minors.

• Can a minor seek
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help without parental
consent?
• An emancipated minor
• Rights of parents to access records
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Group Informed Consent

• Topics pertaining to the nature of the group

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• Therapists Qualifications
• Techniques often used in groups
• The rights and obligations of Group Members
• The risks and benefits of participating
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Confidentiality in Groups

• Safeguard the members’ right to privacy by

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judiciously protecting the identity of the
members and the information.

• The legal concept of privileged communications

generally does not apply in group settings.
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