A PPT on Ethical Issues in Counselling Practicing...

1. PRESENTED BY
SHIMIL ABRAHAM
15SO10119

2.  Aim: helping individual to solve their personal
problems
 These problems often include ethical issues
 The counsellors ethical standards and his professional
techniques are inseparable

3.  Ethics are guidelines that are based on the basic
principles of the counsellor in the code of ethics.
 A moral philosophy of what is right and wrong and
which bring the greatest benefit for most people

4. Therapeutic boundaries are based upon.
 Beneficence: A counselor must accept responsibility for
promoting what is good for the client with the expectation
that the client will benefit from the counseling sessions.
 Nonmaleficence: "doing no harm". The counselor must
avoid at all times, (even inadvertently) any activities or
situations with the client that could cause a conflict of
interest.
 Autonomy: The counsellor's ethical responsibility to
encourage client independent thinking and decision-
making, and to deter all forms of client dependency.

5.  Therapeutic relationships are unbalanced (Who
has more power?)
 Therapeutic relationships are complicated
 Client’s issues/problems are complicated
 The nature of the relationship itself is complicated
 Therapists are human, and humans are fallible.
Ethical guidelines provide guidance and
accountability

6.  Ethical codes are guidelines for what therapists
can and cannot do that have been developed by each
therapeutic discipline’s organizational body,
including the ACA & APA
 There are two dimensions to ethical decision making:
1. Principle ethics: Overt ethical
obligations that must be addressed
2. Virtue ethics: Above and beyond the
obligatory ethics and are idealistic

7. himself
profession
counsellee
Referring
bodies

8. Self care autonomy
Fidelity beneficence
non-
maleficence
Ethical
framework

9.  First and most important – to safeguard welfare of
client and society
 Define ethical conduct in a profession – to inform
and educate members
 Define Standards of Practice – important in legal
actions

10.  Create a means by which members are held accountable
for actions –protecting public
 Offer s a way to promote professional growth.

11.  Schmidt L.D. and Meara 1984 Ethical Professional
and Legal Issues in Counselling Psychology.
Chapter 2 in Brown S.D. and Lent R.W. Handbook
of Counselling Psychology Wiley.

12. Hope, you all have no questions.