<p>"Gamino and Ritter do an excellent job of providing cogent advice and helpful suggestions for how professionals can manage ethical dilemmas that arise from the practice of grief counseling."<br><br>-</b>J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP</b><br>Clinical Psychologist<br>Laguna Niguel, California<br>Author, Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, 4th Edition<br>(From the Foreword)<br><p><b>Essential reading for grief counselors, mental health clinicians, death educators, hospice workers, clergy, funeral directors, and social workers.</b><p>Grief counselors are confronted daily with a host of serious ethical dilemmas, some so critical that they can drastically change the course of a counselor's practice and career. This practical and authoritative guide serves as a comprehensive handbook for navigating the difficult ethical issues grief counselors confront daily with clients. These include confidentiality, end-of-life issues, intimacies with clients, challenges posed by unnatural deaths, spiritual and cultural considerations, and many more. <p>To tackle these issues head on, Gamino and Ritter present the Five P Model, a customized process for ethical decision-making that will help counselors outline a specific, step-by-step course of action to respond to the ethical dilemma at hand. The book is also rich with case examples, both hypothetical and real-life, to demonstrate how to implement the Five P Model in practice, and apply it to various ethical dilemmas.<p><b>Among the key topics discussed:</b><br><ul><li>How to address ethical problems posed by Internet counseling, such as authenticating identity, securing confidentiality, and intervening in a crisis <li>Death competence on the part of the counselor and how the counselor's own experience of grieving can inform counseling practice<li>Guidance on how to report a colleague or face a complaint<li>How to meet ethical obligations towards clients when moving or closing a practice </ul>