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Ethics issues in psychotherapy: attitudes, experience and decision making
Kročková, Nikola ; Rodriguez Manchola, Mabel Virginia (advisor) ; Najbrtová, Kristina (referee)
This thesis deals with ethics in psychotherapy. In the theoretical part, both of these disciplines are presented and I specifically mention individual ethical dilemmas that a psychotherapist may encounter during his work (dual relationships, confidentiality, respect, and d.c.), professional attitudes and resources in the decision-making of ethical dilemmas. The empirical section describes the implemented quantitative research, which maps the experiences and attitudes of 64 psychotherapists to the various ethical issues and resources they use in decision making of ethical dilemmas. Among the results of the work is the order of ethical questions according to how much psychotherapists experience them and how much non/ethical they evaluate such behavior. The questions which are ethically questionable are also presented. One of the hypotheses tested, whether the higher frequency of experience of psychotherapists leads to a more extreme assessment of the ethics of individual situation, was not supported (average correlation coefficient=0.064). On the contrary, the hypothesis that the more psychotherapists encounter a given ethically demanding situation, the more ethical their attitude towards it is supported by a moderate relationship (average correlation coefficient=0.316). Psychotherapists identified...
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