A psychologist accepted a patient but after several sessions realized that she had minimized the extend of her problems in the initial session. In reality, she has a pervasive and chronic Axis I and II problems. Although she has enough insurance and financial resources to pay for 15 therapy sessions, the psychologist correctly recognized that she would need many months (perhaps years) of treatment. He immediately focused the next session on helping her to develop a long-term treatment plan and to identify an agency or service provider that could provide the long-term continuous treatment she needed." Why did the therapist decide he could not treat the patient? What ethics code explains his behavior?

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i The therapist likely decided he could not treat the patient because the patients needs exceeded th... View the full answer