Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
The practice of psychotherapy can be frightening when one considers the numerous and sometimes conflicting sources of duty and liability. Recently, we attended a continuing education program on ethics and risk management for psychologists. The speaker was a psychologist, not an attorney. After spending an hour or two on horror stories, the speaker provided a […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
The intent of this article is to explicate some ethical considerations facing practicing psychologists in the era of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and to frame productive ways of thinking through such questions. At first blush, this may seem like an odd intellectual enterprise: Would not reliance on EBPs imply that a psychologist was practicing ethically, or, […]
Written by Blue Door Consulting on December 5, 2019
On the morning of December 5, 2002, three high school football players from Carson high school went on a field trip to the University of California, Los Angeles campus. The three men, Deshawn Carter Stringer, Jamar Dawson, and Chuwan Anthony, left the tour group and entered campus dormitories. After Stringer allegedly groped the buttocks of […]