Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness

In the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client relationships. This volume explores ethical issues specific to working with deaf clients, which include matters of confidentiality, managing multiple relationships, and the clinician's competency to provide services - particularly in communicating with and understanding deaf people without any subliminal bias. Led by Editor Virginia Gutman, this book is a unique collection of respected mental health professionals' experiences and knowledge in working with deaf clients and is sure to become a standard resource for therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals working with deaf people. See more