Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserving listeners, today's episode I'm going to be talking about the ethical considerations of mental health clinicians using public

media such as myself. I, by doing this podcast, use public media, but I also use Facebook and Instagram and lots of other things.

And over the years, since I started doing this 11 years ago, I have been thinking about and looking up expert opinion and, you know, consulting and reading

about other ethical considerations or ethical applications and applying it to how I'm using a

podcast, the sort of thing I talk about.

And it's really this brand new world. There's not a lot of therapists who do

podcasting and it hasn't been that long among us who have been doing it. And a lot of the other ethical guidelines or ethical scenarios have been

discussed over decades, for example,

having sex with a client, for example, is considered unethical.

And it took us a while as an industry to figure that out for the first several decades.

It wasn't considered unethical at all. In fact they didn't really

even have an ethical code back then and over time they started thinking you know we

should probably look at this you probably look at that we should think about it we should look at the

effect on clients we should think about how it looks to the public and over time

they wisely decided that it was unethical and eventually illegal in a lot of areas to have sex with a client.

And with podcasting, there are gethical codes that can be applied to it but it's hard to know exactly how they

apply because it's really quite different like just take the issue of self-disclosure or

professionalism let's just take the issue of professionalism.

Therapists, when I first entered the field in the mid-90s, the internet didn't really exist.

Barely, you know, you had a Pine email servers and whatnot.

And certainly people didn't have Facebook and all this kind of stuff.

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