Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-544) and indexes.
Introduction to professional ethics -- The counselor as a person and as a professional -- Values and the helping relationship -- Multicultural perspectives and diversity issues -- Client rights and counselor responsibilities -- Confidentiality: ethical and legal issues -- Managing boundaries and multiple relationships -- Professional competence and training -- Ethical issues in supervision -- Issues in theory and practice -- Ethical issues in couples and family therapy -- Ethical issues in group work -- Community and social justice perspectives.
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This contemporary, comprehensive, and practical text helps you discover and determine your own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. This text is the relied-upon, essential text for students in any helping field-the book many students return to well into their professional careers. The authors raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on the issues, discuss their position, and present opportunities for you to refine your own thinking and actively develop your own informed position. Questions explored include: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? What considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations? and more.