My responses were very close to what we have written. We think that in most cases, the informed consent needs to be comprehensive. At the least the therapist needs to assess what the client knows or thinks he/she knows. However, since the field is still forming up a consensus, clients have the say in what evidence they weigh heavily and what evidence is of lesser importance.

We also talked a lot about referral. Referral is an ethical option in everycase where the therapist feels that clients would be better served by another therapist.

If you get a chance to elaborate on the questions and discussions generated by the SIT guidelines, that would be intriguing to me.

Take care…