Risk Management in the Practice of Behavior Therapy: Boundaries and Behavior

Robert M. Goisman, M.D., and Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 46, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1992.46.4.532

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Behavior therapy is a psychotherapy method with unique qualities from risk-management standpoint. The authors discuss some of these aspects, including directiveness, replicability, use of lay cotherapists, exposure treatments, boundary issues. Attention to these and other features of behavior therapy reduce medicolegal risks in this treatment method.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 46 • Number 4 • 1992, pp. 499–684

Pages: 532 - 543

PubMed: 1443283

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Published in print: 1992, pp. 499–684

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Robert M. Goisman, M.D.

Director, Phobia Clinic; Director, Outpatient Training and Research, Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

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Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.

Co-Director, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

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Mailing address: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115.

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Risk Management in the Practice of Behavior Therapy: Boundaries and Behavior

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