📌 Free Webinar on "Counselling Ethics during Therapy Session" Ethics in counseling are suggested standards of conduct based on professional values and moral decision-making. Ethics in counseling are concerned with doing what is best for the client and these are important to protect both the client and the counselor. Therapy is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties. Purpose: The Main Purpose of this session is basically the awareness about Counselling Ethics and teach the Counselors how they can develop a bond of trust and respect with their clients.

2. Topic: Counseling Ethics
Webinar Topic Outline
1. Defining Counseling
2. Assumptions Of Counseling
3. Characteristics Of Counseling
4. Egan's[1993] 3 stages of
helping Model
5. Counseling Ethics

3. Counseling
What is Counseling?
Counseling is a professional
relationship that empowers diverse
individuals,families and
groups to accomplish mental health,
wellness
and education and career goals
[America Counseling Association
Website 2014]

4. Counseling is a professional relationship
between a trained counselor
and a client designed to help client to
understand and clarify their views
of their life space and to learn to reach their
self determined goal through
resolution of problems of an emotional or
interpersonal nature
[Burks and steff 1979]
Counseling and psychotherapy are umbrella terms that cover a range of talking therapies.
They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a
short or long term to help people being about effective change or
enhance their wellbeing.
[British Association For Counseling And Psychotherapy Website 2014]

5. 1.Counseling can only happen if the client
is seeking help and want it to happen.
2.Person seeks counseling when problem in
living which they can't resolve in every day life.
3.Counseling fundamentally based on
conversation and talking things through.
4.Counseling depends on the creation of the
relationship between the people.
ASSUMPTIONS OF COUNSELING

6. 1. Encouragement and permission to speak
2. Respect for difference
3. Confidentiality
4. Affirmation: Counselor enacts a
relationship that is an expression of
a set of core values.
CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNSELING

7. Egan model is a model used alot in counseling
psychology where the object is to achieve lasting
change and to empower people to manage their
own problems more effectively and to develop
unused opportunities more fully.
The 3 major models are Exploration, Challenging And Action.
Exploration: What is going on? Building the helping relationship and exploration
Challenging: What do I want instead? New understanding and offering different perspective.
Action: How might i achieve what I want? Helping the client to develop and use helping strategies.
Egan's models and it's major types
applicable to counseling.

8. Most of us live by a certain set of values that guide our behavior and
mark the difference between right and wrong. These values almost
certainly influence how you approach your work as a counselor.
However, when practicing counseling, working without a defined
counseling code of ethics is a big like sailing a ship without using a
compass. You might trust your intuitive sense of direction but more
often than not,you will end up miles off course.
Here's a few Ethics we have in counseling psychology.
1.Autonomy is the respect for the client free will
2.Beneficence and non- maleficence are the commitment to improve a client's wellbeing and avoid harming
them respectively
COUNSELING ETHICS

9. 3. Fidelity is honoring professional commitment
to fair treatment of clients.
4. Justice is a professional commitment to fair
treatments of clients.
5. Self respect or Self interest is fostering a
sense that the counselor is also entitled
to self care and respect.
COUNSELING ETHICS

10. Any
Question?