Ethical Decision-Making Models: A Review of the Literature

What is it about?

This work not only defines the status of decision making in the counseling profession up until 2000, but it lists and classifies major models of decision making. It is a major marker of the status of decision making model development and implementation up until the time of the review.

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Why is it important?

It was the first work to provide an accounting of existing decision making models in counseling, providing an overview, summary, and classification of major models. This paper was followed by a 2012 chapter by the author in the APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology, entitled "Ethical Decision Making in Mental Health Contexts: Representative Models and an Organizing Framework." That work continued where the 2000 review of the literature left off.

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