The article “Ethical issues in child and adolescent psychotherapy: a clinical review.” (DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2010.053), published in the July-September 2010 issue of IJME, has been retracted by the Editor following an investigation into a reader’s complaint of plagiarism. A plagiarism check found that a substantial amount of text was reproduced from a published article (LI Ascherman, S Rubin. Current Ethical Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Child Adolesc Psychiatric Clin N Am. 2008. 17: 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2007.07.008). The authors was informed of the findings of the investigation because plagiarism is a serious breach of publication ethics, necessitating retraction of the plagiarised article. The author consented to the retraction.