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This chapter focuses on mental health practitioner cultural competence and how it impacts the clinician’s ability to make sound ethical decisions. Authors use case studies to illuminate various ethical dilemmas and outline ethical code standards from various mental health professions to show what is outlined by the code and what barriers can impede mental health professional’s ethical decision-making. Authors provide definitions to ethical practice, discuss barriers to ethical practice, and make the argument linking cultural competence to ethical practice and decision-making A discussion regarding key issues practitioners must be aware is also provided.
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Watson, Z.E.P., Frazier, K.N. (2020). Prejudice and the Ethical Code. In: Benuto, L., Duckworth, M., Masuda, A., O'Donohue, W. (eds) Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35517-3_17
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