Legal Issues and Religious Counseling
This much-needed book offers a current description of how religious counselors and clergy, as well as their local and national religious organizations, become legally vulnerable. The authors examine the three most litigated areas in clergy counseling: breaches of confidentiality; sexual misconduct; and the content and quality of counseling services. Glossary.\ \ This much-needed book offers a current description of how religious counselors and clergy, as well as their...
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This much-needed book offers a current description of how religious counselors and clergy as well as their local and national religious organizations become legally vulnerable. It examines the three most litigated areas in clergy counseling: breaches of confidentiality, sexual misconduct, and the content and quality of counseling service. The authors provide clear and concise explanations of clauses in the U.S. Constitution pertaining to religion as well as up-to-date accounts of cases against clergy and their employers. The authors describe how counseling clergy can perform their own "legal audit," and the book includes detailed listings of state-by-state statutes for referral.
Introduction11The First Amendment and Religious Counseling: A Legal Exegesis72Tort Law: Clergy Negligence, Clergy Malpractice, and the Duty to Protect the Counselee223The Expanding Vulnerability of Religious Counselors to Legal Action: Sexual Misconduct and the Duty to Protect Third Parties334State Regulation of Religious Counselors445Privileged Communication for Religious Counselors686Laws Limiting the Clergy Privilege907General Trends and Patterns of Religious Counseling Liability1028A Legal Audit for Religious Counselors111Glossary121List of Abbreviations Used in References125
