The following questions are related to ‘Ethics’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My husband and I started seeing a counselor separately first, but last week was the first week we saw her together. During our first session together, the counselor asked my husband if he had ever cheated. He says, “Besides the cyber sex, no.” Then the counselor asked him to leave the room, so that [...]
Q: Is it possible or wise for a single therapist to serve two people who are in an adversarial relationship? I am in a program with a behavioral support group. When my neighbor was still civil she recommended I work with this particular person. When I was granted that, I was thrilled, as the caseworker [...]
Q: I have been married for 27 years, and the last three have been devastating for both of us. We have both been in individual therapy for three years and spent six months in marriage counseling. I recently discovered email correspondence between my husband and his psychologist in which she 1) mentions three colleagues that [...]
Q: Someone I know has been going for psychotherapy with a chartered psychologist who is a member of the British Psychological Society. They have had several sessions with this person. An invoice for the therapy services was recently received by a relation of the person going for therapy. That relation had briefly discussed assisting them [...]
Q: I went to a clinical psychologist-nutritionist in my university for treatment for disordered eating. For the past few years I’ve been restricting food intake and within a week started to count calories and used fiber to purge. Then I’ll start to “binge” on sweet stuff like chocolates and ice-cream, and eventually substitute my main [...]
Q: I need to know if my therapist (LCSW) is being abusive. Here are some of the things she’s done that make me think this might be the case. She diagnosed my immediate family members with Narcissistic Personality Disorder without ever having met them. In many sessions, she has said things like “Your mother doesn’t [...]
