Overview
Whether in clinical practice, research, education or private practice, speech-language pathologists and audiologists need to understand the impact of ethical issues surrounding their professions. By presenting ethical dilemmas in the context of real or hypothetical case scenarios, Ethics for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: An Illustrative Casebook, will help you to recognize and approach ethical dilemmas with a firm understanding. Confidence in your skills will be enhanced through opportunities for practical application found throughout the book.
Synopsis
Whether in clinical practice, research, education or private practice, speech-language pathologists and audiologists need to understand the impact of ethical issues surrounding their professions. By presenting ethical dilemmas in the context of real or hypothetical case scenarios, Ethics for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: An Illustrative Casebook, will help you to recognize and approach ethical dilemmas with a firm understanding. Confidence in your skills will be enhanced through opportunities for practical application found throughout the book.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Leah B. Horst, MA, CCC-SLP(Walter Reed Army Medical Center)
Description:This is an excellent teaching tool for new clinicians and a valuable reference for professionals, full of pertinent yet nonprescriptive case-based scenarios, thorough representative diagrams, and useful points for consideration as it reviews 2003 ethics codes for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the American Academy of Audiology (AAA).
Purpose:The authors' intention is to describe the guidelines and applications of ethics, which is an area of speech-language pathology and audiology that is relatively lacking in formal materials. The authors succeed in illustrating the fundamental and mostly constant principles of ethics, presented in mostly up-to-date contexts with uncomplicated wording.
Audience:The book seems most appropriate for students and new clinicians who are in the process of learning to grasp ethical concepts as they apply to relevant, real-world situations. However, it also may be useful for more experienced practitioners of speech pathology and audiology who are exploring a specific ethical question, venturing into a new area of practice, or seeking to develop a more structured approach to ethical decision-making.
Features:The authors describe and explore ethical principles in an intuitive and organized manner, using multiple case scenarios and guided question techniques to encourage development of the reader's moral sense, rather than a simple reiteration of each code. The book utilizes Mind Map and Vee diagrams to illustrate ethics codes and decision-making processes. The diagrams are especially useful in visualizing the core structures of codes and maintaining homogeneity in the decision-making process, so that students of ethics do not skip important steps or only partially apply newly learned information. Each chapter is followed by an extensive list of references; appendixes include a list of journals devoted to ethics and a cross-index that allows readers to search for case scenarios by topic.
Assessment:This book takes a close look at the ethical codes of ASHA and AAA, and is a unique addition to the literature in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. It is a good reference for clinicians in all stages and areas of their profession. However, it is important that readers, especially those new to the field, do not skip fundamental sections such as Ethical Principles and Steps in Ethical Decision Making in favor of the more illustrative case-based scenarios. The only noteworthy, albeit trivial, point of contention is that the diagrams are accompanied by remarkably small text, which may be off-putting to some readers. Overall, this is a valuable contribution to the literature.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Leah B. Horst, MA, CCC-SLP(Walter Reed Army Medical Center)Description: This is an excellent teaching tool for new clinicians and a valuable reference for professionals, full of pertinent yet nonprescriptive case-based scenarios, thorough representative diagrams, and useful points for consideration as it reviews 2003 ethics codes for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the American Academy of Audiology (AAA).
Purpose: The authors' intention is to describe the guidelines and applications of ethics, which is an area of speech-language pathology and audiology that is relatively lacking in formal materials. The authors succeed in illustrating the fundamental and mostly constant principles of ethics, presented in mostly up-to-date contexts with uncomplicated wording.
Audience: The book seems most appropriate for students and new clinicians who are in the process of learning to grasp ethical concepts as they apply to relevant, real-world situations. However, it also may be useful for more experienced practitioners of speech pathology and audiology who are exploring a specific ethical question, venturing into a new area of practice, or seeking to develop a more structured approach to ethical decision-making.
Features: The authors describe and explore ethical principles in an intuitive and organized manner, using multiple case scenarios and guided question techniques to encourage development of the reader's moral sense, rather than a simple reiteration of each code. The book utilizes Mind Map and Vee diagrams to illustrate ethics codes and decision-making processes. The diagrams are especially useful in visualizing the core structures of codes and maintaining homogeneity in the decision-making process, so that students of ethics do not skip important steps or only partially apply newly learned information. Each chapter is followed by an extensive list of references; appendixes include a list of journals devoted to ethics and a cross-index that allows readers to search for case scenarios by topic.
Assessment: This book takes a close look at the ethical codes of ASHA and AAA, and is a unique addition to the literature in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. It is a good reference for clinicians in all stages and areas of their profession. However, it is important that readers, especially those new to the field, do not skip fundamental sections such as Ethical Principles and Steps in Ethical Decision Making in favor of the more illustrative case-based scenarios. The only noteworthy, albeit trivial, point of contention is that the diagrams are accompanied by remarkably small text, which may be off-putting to some readers. Overall, this is a valuable contribution to the literature.