Breaking the Barriers to Higher Economic Growth or The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals

Breaking the Barriers to Higher Economic Growth: Better Governance and Deeper Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa

Author: Mustapha Kamel Nabli

The world's attention to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has often been dominated by headline issues: conflict, sanctions, political turmoil, and rising oil prices. Little of this international attention has considered the broad range of development challenges facing this diverse group of countries.

Breaking the Barriers reflects the collected thinking of the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA Region on the long-term development challenges facing the region and the reform priorities and strategies for effectively meeting these challenges. It is a comprehensive reform agenda to "break the barriers" to higher economic growth, to ensure sufficient jobs can be created for the region's rapidly growing labor force. At its core, it requires the region's public sector-dominated economies to move to private sector-driven economies, from closed economies to more open economies, and from oil-dominated and volatile economies to more stable and diversified economies. This book examines some of these reforms and the complex issues surrounding their successful implementation. In order for the countries of the MENA region to successfully implement the reforms needed for higher growth and job creation, they will also need to address the fundamental weaknesses in governance throughout the region.

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The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals: A Complete Guide to Responsible Practice: with HIPAA Update

Author: Thomas L Hartsell

Everything professionals need to know to protect their practice against ethical violations and complaints is covered in this second edition of The Portable Ethicist for Mental Health Professionals. Written by two attorneys specializing in legal and ethical issues in mental health, this indispensable guide arms clinicians with the expert knowledge needed to avoid an ethical violation, or to handle the situation if a complaint is filed.  Organized alphabetically for easy reference.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xix
Introduction     xxiii
Client Issues
Alternative Treatment Methods     3
Boundary Violations     21
Confidentiality     33
Dangerous Clients     55
Discrimination     69
False and Misleading Statements     81
Informed Consent     97
Interviewing     113
Prohibited Clients     123
Risky Clients     137
Repressed and Recovered Memory     151
Sexual Misconduct     163
Terminating Therapy     177
Ethics Codes and Licensing
Areas of Ethical Complaints     197
Ethics Codes as Evidence     207
Licensing Board Procedures     217
Office of Civil Rights     231
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services     243
Reporting Statutes and Obligations     253
Practice Considerations
Billing     267
Establishing a Practice     279
Closing or Interrupting a Practice     299
Kickbacks, Bartering, Fees, and Gifts     317
Malpractice Insurance     331
Record Keeping     347
ProfessionalIssues
Drug and Alcohol Use, Impairment     369
Duty to Warn     381
Interprofessional Issues     395
Professional Vulnerability     403
Supervision     413
Special Therapy Considerations
Forensic Evaluation     435
Group Therapy     453
Don't Do Dumb Stuff     469
Epilogue: Ethics in the Twenty-First Century     479
Mental Health Professional Organizations     487
Allied Healthcare Providers Professional and Supplemental Liability Insurance Policy     489
Social Workers Professional Liability Claims-Made Policy     499
Sample Jurisprudence Exam Questions     507
References and Reading Material     511
Index     515