ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the key ethical issues for psychotherapists who are employed by, and work in, organisations that provide psychotherapy services. It outlines the possible conflicts of interests and to describe how psychotherapists and organisations alike deal with them. Working in organisations raises issues of how psychotherapy practitioners relate to the objectives, goals, and methods of the departments, sections, or units in which they work, and, beyond that, with the broad aims of the larger employing organisation. Psychotherapists working in organisations are likely to be subject to the demands and constraints of a number of codes of ethics. The basic ethical implication is that organisations are responsible for setting up the psychotherapeutic settings, where people are meant to feel free and be encouraged to disclose their free associations. The chapter highlights many of the ethical elements in psychotherapy practice that have relevance to psychotherapy treatment situations as they are practised in organisations.
