Abstract
Reviews the book, Children, Ethics, and the Law: Professional Issues and Cases by Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia C. Keith-Spiegel (1990). This book provides a thought-provoking introductory primer to psychologists' ethical dilemmas in working with children. This is the fourth volume of a series on children and the law published by the University of Nebraska Press that includes an earlier volume on professional ethics in child custody disputes (Weithorn, 1987). If insightful ethical analysis is predicated on asking the right questions, Koocher and Keith-Spiegel help their readers to do so. Their approach is engaging, thoughtful, and well-reasoned but nondogmatic, and it includes a good discussion of pertinent legal cases (an appendix provides thumbnail summaries of major decisions) and helpful references to additional sources. Their major expository device, however, is a variety of paragraph-length case studies that are drawn from the authors' clinical experience as well as legal sources. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)