Dictionary of Ethical and Legal Terms and Issues

Abandonment

Abuse (adult)

Abuse (child)

Abuse allegation

Academic accountability

Accommodation

Accreditation

Accrediting bodies

Actionable

ADA

Administrative agency

Administrative law

Administrative safeguards

Admissibility

Adoption

Advance directives

Adverse childhood experiences (ACE)

Adversarial system

Advocacy

Affidavit

Affirmative defenses

Agency liability

Agent

Alienation of affections

Alimony

Allegations

Alternative counseling

Alternative medicine

American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA)

American School Counselor Association (ASCA)

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Amicus curiae

Amnesia

Analytical ethics

Annulment

Applied ethics

Aquinas, Thomas

Arbitrating

Arbitration

Aristotle

Arraign

Aspirational ethics

Aspirational professional standards

Assault

Assent

Assessment

Assignment

Assisted suicide

Assumption of risk

Attachment theory

Autonomy

Balancing

Bartering

Battered child syndrome

Battered person syndrome

Battered wife syndrome

Battery

Beneficence

Benevolence

Best interest of the child

Beyond a reasonable doubt

Billing

Biomedical ethics

Borrowed servant rule

Boundary

Boundary crossings

Boundary violations

Breach of contract

Breach of duty

Brief

Burden of proof

Burnout

Business ethics

Capacity

Capital offense

Captain of the ship doctrine

Care ethics

Case citation

Case consultation

Case law

Case management

Case manager

Categorical boundaries

Categorical imperative

Casuistry

Certification

Character

Child abuse

Child custody

Child protective service

Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome

Child support

Child witness

Circumstantial evidence

Civil action

Civil court

Civil law

Civil rights law

Class action

Clear and convincing evidence

Client assistance program

Clinical ethics

Clinical privileges

Clinical supervision

Code

Collaborative decision making

Common good

Common law

Common law marriage

Community

Community property

Community values

Compensatory damages

Competence (client)

Competence (practitioner)

Competency to stand trial

Complaint

Complaint (ethical)

Complementary and alternative counseling

Complementary and alternative medicine

Complementary medicine

Compliance

Comprehension

Compulsory treatment

Confession

Confidential communication

Confidential information

Confidentiality

Conflict of interest

Conformity

Consequential ethics

Conservator

Conservatorship

Consultant

Consultation

Consultation confidentiality

Consumer

Contempt of court

Contingency fee

Contract

Contract law

Contributory negligence

Copayment

Corporal punishment

Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)

Criminal action

Criminal court

Criminal law

Criminal negligence

Critical-evaluative level

Cross-cultural counseling

Cross-examination

Cruel and unusual punishment

Cultural encapsulation

Cultural sensitivity

Culturally disadvantaged

Culture

Custodial parent

Custody

Custody dispute

Custody evaluation

Cybercounseling

Damages

Danger to self or others

Dangerous client

Date rape

Daubert test

De facto

De jure

Decision

Decree

Defamation injury

Defendant

Deinstitutionalization

Deontological ethics

Dependent child

Deposition

Determinism

Developmentally disabled

Differential diagnosis

Dignity

Dimensional boundaries

Diminished capacity

Diplomate

Direct liability

Direct-examination

Disability

Discovery

Discretion

Dismissal

Dissociative amnesia

Dissolution of marriage

Distance learning

Diversion

Divorce

Divorce mediation

Domestic violence

Do-not-resuscitate

Downcoding

Dual relationship

Due care (professional)

Due process

Due process in supervision

Durable power of attorney

Durham test

Duty

Duty ethics

Duty to predict

Duty to prevent harm

Duty to protect

Duty to report

Duty to warn

Emancipation

Employee-employer relationship

Enterprise liability

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Equal protection of the law

Equity law

Ethic of being

Ethic of care

Ethic of doing

Ethical absolutism

Ethical anxiety

Ethical climate

Ethical dilemma

Ethical principles

Ethical sensitivity

Ethical theories

Ethical values

Ethical violation

Ethical virtues

Ethics

Ethics–aspirational

Ethics–mandatory

Ethics–philosophical

Ethics–professional

Ethics audit

Ethics of care

Ethnicity

Eudaemonism

Euthanasia

Evidence

Exception

Existentialist ethics

Expert testimony

Expert witness

Exploitation

Eyewitness

Failure to commit

Fair evaluation in supervision

Fair preponderance of the evidence

False imprisonment

False memory

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Family law

Father absence syndrome

Father custody

Fees

Felony

Feminist ethics

FERPA

Fidelity

Finding

Foreseeability

Foster care

Free will

Frye test

General ethics

Good and goodness

“Good faith” mandatory report

Good life

Good Samaritan laws

Grand jury

Grandparent visitation

Guardian

Guardian ad litem

Habit

Handicap

Happiness

Hastened death

Health care proxy

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Health maintenance organization

Hearing

Helsinki Declaration

High suggestibility

HIPAA

HMO

Holder of privilege

Hospice

Hospital privileges

Human nature

Human subjects committee

Humanism

Idealism

Immoral

Impairment

Impeach

Impeachment of experts

In loco parentis

Incompetence

Incompetency

Independence

Independent living

Indeterminate confinement

Indictment

Indirect services

Informed consent

Informed consent to treatment

Injunction

Inpatient

Insanity

Insanity defense

Institutional review board

Institutional

Integrity

Intent

Intention

Interrogatory

Intuitive level

Involuntary commitment

Involuntary confinement

Irreconcilable differences

Irresistible impulse test

Jaffee v. Redmond

Joint custody

Joint legal custody

Joint physical custody

Judgment

Jurisdiction

Jury

Justice

Knew-or-should-have-known doctrine

Law

Law of evidence

Lay witness

Layered supervision

Leadership

Leading question

Least restrictive alternative

Legal duty

Legal guardian

Legal representative

Legalism

Liability

Liability insurance

Libel

Licensing board

Licensing exam

Licensing statute

Licensure

Limits of practice

Litigation

Living will

Malfeasance

Malicious prosecution

Malpractice

Managed behavioral health care organization

Managed care

Managed care contract

Managed care organization

Mandatory ethics

Mandatory reporting

Mandatory reporting law

Marital communications privilege

Marital property

Marital rape

Marital settlement agreement

Mediation

Medicaid

Medicare

Membership

Mental health law

Mental health professionals

Mental retardation

Mental status examination

Miranda warning

Misdemeanor

Misfeasance

Misrepresentation

Mistrial

M'Naghten test

Moral development

Morality

Morals

Motion

Multicultural counseling

Multiculturalism

Narrative ethics

National Career Development Association (NCDA)

National Model for School Counseling Programs

National Standards for School Counseling Programs

Natural law

Natural supports

Neglect

Negligence

Negligent hiring

Negligent supervision

Negotiation

No Child Left Behind Act

No fault divorce

Noncustodial parent

Nonfeasance

Nonmaleficence

Norm

Not guilty by reason of insanity

Objection

Obligation

Online counseling

Opinion

Oregon Death with Dignity Act of 1997

Organizational climate

Organizational culture

Organizational ethics

Overdiagnosis

Pain and suffering

Parens patriae

Parental alienation syndrome (PAS)

Parental kidnaping

Parental rights

Paternity suit

Peer consultation

Peer review

Perjury

Person with a disability

Personal ethics

Petition

Petitioner

Philosophical ethics

Physical abuse

Physical safeguards

Plaintiff

Plato

Platonic ethics

Plea

Pleadings

Portability

Postmodern ethics

Potentially detrimental practitioner-client relationships

Power

Power differential

Precedent

Prediction of dangerousness

Preliminary hearing

Prima facie

Principle ethics

Privacy

Privilege

Privileged communication

Profession

Professional

Professional and ethical decision making

Professional boundaries

Professional competence

Professional counseling

Professional ethics

Professional malpractice

Professional sanctions

Progress or psychotherapy notes

Protected health information

Psychological ethics

Psychological Miranda warning

Psychological testimony

Psychosocial assessment

Psychotherapist-client privileged communication

Psychotherapy notes under HIPAA

Punitive damages

Qualified expert

Reasonable accommodation

Reasonable care

Reasonable person standard

Reciprocity

Recovered memory

Redress

Referral

Regulation

Relational supervision

Relationship advocate

Relativism

Relief

Religion

Remedy

Repressed memories

Respect for persons

Respondeat superior

Respondeat superior doctrine

Responsibility

Restraining order

Restraint

Revocation of licensure

Right to decline treatment or medication

Rights ethics

Rights of children

Scope of employment

Scope of practice

Security

Self-determination

Self-referral

Self-supervision

Settlement

Sex offender

Sex with clients

Sexual abuse

Sexual exploitation

Sexual harassment

Sexual misconduct

Sexual misconduct in a professional relationship

Situation ethics

Slander

Slippery slope argument

SOAP notes

Social ethics

Sole custody

Special damages

Spiritual interventions

Spiritual sensitivity

Spirituality

Spousal abuse

Standard of care

Statute

Statute of limitations

Statutory law

Stay away order

Stipulation

Strict liability

Subpoena

Subpoena duces tecum

Suicide

Suit

Summary of judgment

Summons

Supervision

Supervision guidelines

Supervisor impairment

Supervisor incompetence

Support order

Supreme court

Surrogate decision maker

Surrogate mother

Suspension of licensure

Synderesis

Tarasoff doctrine

Tarasoff duty

Technical safeguards

Termination hearing

Testifying expert

Therapeutic contract

Third party

Third party rule

Threats to others

Tort

Trial

Trial court

Umbrella rule

Undue hardship

Undue influence

Unethical

Universal moral judgments

Upcoding

U.S. Supreme Court

Utilitarianism

Vacate

Value judgment

Value system

Values

Valuing

Venue

Verdict

Vicarious liability

Virtue

Virtue ethics

Visitation

Voluntariness in informed consent

Wage attachment action

Waiver

Web counseling

Whistle-blowing

Witness

Work orientation

Work product

Workers' compensation

Wrongful commitment