The Rights of the Child in Psychotherapy

Halasz, George

doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.3.285

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“…Guidelines differ from state to state for determining a minor’s competency, but may include consideration of age, ability, experience, education and/or training, degree of maturity and/or judgment exhibited, conduct and demeanor, and capacity to appreciate the nature, risks and consequences of an action or procedure ( Belcher v. CAMC , 1992). The therapist is ethically, although not necessarily legally, obligated to explain the treatment to the child-client in language that is appropriate to the child’s developmental level of understanding and to secure the child’s assent to care when reasonable to do so, even if the child cannot provide legal consent, independent of parental consent (Griswold & Griswold, 2000; Halasz, 1996; Hall & Lin, 1995; Ledyard, 1998).…”

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Legal and ethical issues in play therapy.

Carmichael

2006

International Journal of Play Therapy

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Play therapists work with minor children in their practice; therefore the play therapist must be cognizant of the special circumstances under the law and major professional codes of ethics that apply to this special population. Major court cases, legislation, and critical issues are condensed in this article.Play therapy is a multidisciplinary therapeutic intervention for children. While this brings about a montage of theories and strategies, this diversity brings more than one code of ethics, licensing board, and form of verifying competency into the professional identity. Many play therapists are members or follow one of the major codes of ethics for the mental health community: American Counseling Association (ACA), American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT), American Psychological Association (APA), or National Association of Social Work (NASW).Social workers, professional counselors, and psychologists are part of professional mental health workers who are governed by state boards in most states. The professional codes of conduct and standards of practice are usually reviewed and acted into law. Therefore, when a code of ethics is violated by a mental health worker, a law is most often broken. The mental health worker's license is not only in danger of being revoked, but the licensee may be facing criminal charges under the state's legal code. A licensing board may hold a great deal of power granted to them by the state legislature to influence the limitations of practice or to require practice under supervision for an extended time.

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Legal and ethical issues in play therapy.

Carmichael

2006

International Journal of Play Therapy

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“…Psychosocial influences ( Quinton 1980) and parenting patterns can place priority on either the well‐being of the child, the parent or the family unit ( Halasz 1996). These phenomena restate the well‐known and universal conflict between the needs and rights of the individual which compete with those of the family or wider community ( Melton 1996).…”

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Parental non‐compliance — a paediatric dilemma. A medical and psychodynamic perspective

Menahem

Halasz

2000

Child

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Considerable resources have been directed towards the recognition and management of child physical and sexual abuse and/or neglect. However, the issue of parental non-compliance is less well defined and under recognized. While outwardly seeking advice, non-compliant parents, especially if anxious, are unable or unwilling to comply with the recommendations made. Conflicts of interest between the parent(s)' and the health professionals' perceptions regarding the best interest of the child may arise. Parental non-compliance is centred around the parents' perception of the child's current problems and its relationship to past problems. Such non-compliance may reflect ignorance or misunderstanding of the clinical situation. Ignorance may be readily addressed if the parents are receptive and trusting. However, non-compliance more commonly arises from the parents' inability to cope emotionally with the stresses surrounding the recommended treatment. Parents may be vulnerable to psychological reactions which inhibit rational thinking. Parental anxieties are best understood in terms of psychological constructs, including 'defences' such as 'denial' and 'splitting', 'repetition compulsion' and the need to 'work through' psychological barriers so that the child's best interest is served. Parental non-compliance can serve to protect the parents from overwhelming fears and anxieties, which if addressed may transform parental defensiveness to co-operation. Extreme parental non-compliance may represent a special form of child abuse where, due to parental psychopathology, parents are unable to consider the child's best interest. Clinical vignettes arising from a consultant private and hospital ambulatory setting will focus on management strategies for successful outcomes. Recommendations offered on ways to reduce the risk of parental non-compliance include building trust, eliciting the aid of a parental partner, and organizing a second opinion, thereby improving the chances of a successful outcome.

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“…hild and adolescent psychotherapists today face the formidable challenge of embracing the paradigm change that has transformed the organising principles underpinning our profession. 1 While pregnancy, infancy and early childhood remain the constant in the human life-cycle, and the best-interest-of-thechild informs our ethical stance, 2,3 the major advances in neuroscience over the last 20 years have redrawn the boundaries of our understanding of the brain-mind interface and the doctrine of the unchanging brain, in essence leading to a new 'model of psychotherapy'. 4 This paradigm change has special relevance to the theory and practice of psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy.…”

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Special population – child and adolescent psychotherapy

Halasz

2017

Australas Psychiatry

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The emerging neuroscience-driven paradigm of psychotherapy poses challenges for the child and adolescent psychotherapist: to embrace the new conceptual reference points as organising principles leads to an urgent need to rethink traditional diagnostic formulations and time-honoured techniques for intervention. Our child patients and their families are entitled to benefit from the translation of the new research evidence from attachment regulation theory to clinical psychotherapy. Our clinical psychotherapy should sustain the 'best-interest-of-the-child' standards for well-being while also heeding Frances Tustin's warning for therapists to avoid the 'perpetuation of an error' by overlooking recent developments from allied fields in developmental psychology and the neurosciences.

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The Rights of the Child in Psychotherapy

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Legal and ethical issues in play therapy.

Legal and ethical issues in play therapy.

Parental non‐compliance — a paediatric dilemma. A medical and psychodynamic perspective

Special population – child and adolescent psychotherapy

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