Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel, Ph.D. is Training Director in Counseling Psychology and Professor at Cleveland State University who has been teaching graduate students in counseling and counseling psychology for 30 years. She has authored numerous articles on the ethics of professional practice and her book, Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Standards, Research and Emerging Issues, is in its fourth edition and the book she recently co-published The Duty to Protect with Dr. James Werth and Dr. Andy Benjamin.. Along with Dr. Elliott Ingersoll, she has co-edited the Mental Health Desk Reference. Her other books include The Counseling Process (with Patterson) and Using Test Data in Clinical Practice (with MacCluskie and Toman). In 2004, she received CSU’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. She has conducted continuing education programs on professional ethics for the Oregon and North Carolina Psychological Associations, John Carroll University, Ohio’s Counseling and Social Work Board, MetroHealth Medical Center, and other local and regional mental health agencies. Dr. Welfel received her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1979 and has been a licensed psychologist in Ohio since 1986.