| Abstract: | Argues that the unique characteristics of rural environments for mental health practice create potential ethical dilemmas for practitioners, including confidentiality, limits of competence, and multiple levels of relationships. These issues make practice in rural areas difficult, but close attention to the American Psychological Association's ethical principles and rural environments themselves reveals positive suggestions for solutions (e.g., the rural practitioner should examine the resources of the rural environment for solutions to problems that result from that environment). (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
