ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ethical implications of R/S pluralism for practice. Using professional codes of ethics as guides, it explores how R/S is involved in issues of ethics across practice areas, augmenting existing codes. It then considers the boundary between psychotherapy and spiritual direction, showing how helping relationships sometimes bridge the two. Finally, it adapts a framework for ethical decision making to reflect this exploration. A clinical case illustrates some of the ethical challenges in working with R/S across boundaries.
