ABSTRACT
The relationship between therapists and their clients is extremely complex and intimate. As a result, a host of difficult ethical issues can arise. Because it would be impossible to address all of the potential ethical challenges encountered in psychotherapy, it is vitally important that therapists develop their own ethical reasoning skills to identify and resolve complex ethical situations. In fact, it is difficult to conceive of how a therapist could be professionally competent to deal with all of the complex circumstances that arise inevitably in psychotherapy without having the ability to make sound ethical judgments (Cohen & Cohen, 1999). This chapter will address several of the major ethical considerations that are fundamental to the process of psychotherapy and counseling and provide professionals with opportunities to hone their ethical reasoning skills.
