Discuss the ethical issues surrounding motivational enhancement therapy: Is it ethically permissible for therapists to support an adolescent’s decision to engage in an illegal behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
Parental consent is required prior to treatment because parents have the ultimate responsibility for the children’s welfare. On the one hand, abstinence is indeed the real goal, and is it ethicl for a therapist to support an adolescent in engaging in an illegal behavior? On the other hand, though many therapists support the ideal of abstince, given that it is low probability, reduction in use is the next best thing. If harm reduction works and they don’t use it, is that an unethical choice?
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a. Bibliotherapy b. Assertiveness training c. Power analysis d. Identify confusion assessment
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a. control over coming out b. adoption potential c. control over hormones d. internalized homophobia
Case review can occur at any point in the helping process
A. True B. False