Ethical dilemmas related to disclosure issues: Sex addiction therapists in the trenches

Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-39

  Schneider, Jennifer P ^a,b   Levinson, Barbara ^b  

^a Arizona Community Physicians   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OFFENDER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PROFESSIONALISM; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPIST ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL ADDICTION; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL MISCONDUCT;

EID: 33645013373     PISSN: 10720162     EISSN: 15325318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10720160500529193     Document Type: Article

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