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Expert Witness & Forensic Consultations
Director, Zur Institute, Sonoma, CA
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Summary of Dr. Zur’s Unique and Outstanding Qualifications:
- He has trained thousands of psychotherapists in his ethics classes and workshops at graduate and post-graduate levels for almost twenty years.
- He co-edited the landmark book, Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy, published by Springer Pub. in 2002.
- In 2003 he authored the breakthrough best seller, The HIPAA Compliance Kit, distributed by W. W. Norton.
- His online continuing education program has more than 90 courses and is approved by American Psychological Association (APA), California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) and other accrediting bodies. For more information, click here.
- His online Certification in Advanced Ethics Studies in Psychotherapy is probably the most comprehensive program on the ethics and law of psychotherapy and counseling.
- Dr. Zur, Licensed Psychologist, has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1988.
- His latest book, Boundaries in Psychotherapy, is widely considered the most comprehensive book on therapeutic boundaries to date, published in 2007 by American Psychological Association, APA Books.
- Dr. Zur is a renowned expert in the area of standard of care and therapeutic boundaries and is one of the most prolific writers on the topics of dual relationships, sexual and non-sexual touch in therapy, self-disclosure, gifts, bartering, fees, telehealth, etc. Many of his publications are available online.
- His work has been instrumental in changing the professional attitudes and understanding of the importance of flexibility and therapeutic context in legal, ethical and clinical applications of multiple relationships and other psychotherapeutic boundaries.
- His writing has been a major factor in dispelling myths, such as the erroneous beliefs that:
- Dual relationships or multiple relationships are inherently unethical.
- Non-sexual touch is below the standard of care and inevitably leads to sex.
- The standard of care is based on risk management principles.
- Clinically appropriate boundary crossings often lead to illegal and unethical boundary violations.
Dr. Zur's expert consultations include the following areas:
- Standard of care
- Negligence
- Confidentiality
- Psychotherapist-patient sex
- Scope of practice
- Duty to warn
- Suicide & Danger to Self
- Diagnosis
- Inappropriate Termination & Abandonment
- Treatment planning
- Treatment of Borderline, PTSD, Major Depression, Bipolar, Anxiety, Addiction and other mental disorders
- Dual relationships
- Boundary violations
- Record keeping
- Conflict of interest
- Transference abuse
- Sexual & non-sexual touch
- Fees & Bartering
- Gifts
- Therapy outside the office
- Adventure Therapy
- Home Office
- HIPAA Compliance and Violations
In summary, Dr. Zur brings a unique and non-dogmatic approach to his forensic consultations and expert witness work. His graduate teaching and broad clinical experience, combined with extensive research and professional publications, make him a most qualified and credible authority on the clinical, ethical and legal aspects of standard of care of psychotherapy and counseling. He is highly qualified in helping attorneys cross-exam rigid and uninformed expert witnesses who take the position that boundary crossings (gifts, touch, self-disclosure, etc.) are always harmful and that dual relationships are unethical and below the standard of care, or those expert witnesses who, ignorantly, equate risk-management principles and the standard of care.
For Dr. Zur's C.V., click here.
For Dr. Zur’s publications, click here
To contact Dr. Zur regarding availability, fees, etc., e-mail him at info@zurinstitute.com or call his office at 707-996-0499.For ethics and clinical consultations for psychotherapists, click here.
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