Executive Briefings | March 13, 2017
Therapists & Online Reviews – Where Is The Ethical Line?
You can find online reviews for everything from house painters to beauty salons to therapists — and there are all sorts of practical and ethical quandaries for organizations when it comes with these online reviews. But the ethics discussion has become especially pertinent at the intersection of online reviews and mental health.
In a recent edition of The Ethicist column in The New York Times, an unnamed mental health clinician wrote, “Discussions with fellow clinicians have revealed that many if not most have ‘primed the pump’ with favorable ‘reviews,’ written by friends or family members or by . . .