ABSTRACT
Psychotherapists have a significant responsibility to do their best to ensure that their actions serve their clients’ best interests and that clients are not exploited or harmed. This responsibility has been described by Jorgenson, Hirsch, and Wahl (1997) as a fiduciary responsibility to one’s clients. This means that the psychotherapist agrees to act in the client’s best interests. Yet, as this book will clearly illustrate, doing so is
not always easy and straightforward. Depending on the setting and context, mental health practitioners may have multiple obligations, roles, and allegiances that make applying our responsibilities to clients and others quite complex and challenging.
