Palliative Care

Paper Summary:

A counselor should always use skills of emotional assessment, active listening and goal setting with clients. Counselors working with the terminally ill must use additional skills of deep exploration of value clarification, be capable of employing crisis intervention techniques, be competent to advocate when necessary and provide bereavement counseling. The purpose of this paper is to make counselors more aware of end-of-life issues client's may face and how the counseling code of ethics should guide the counselor when assisting terminally ill clients. It also looks at issues within the code of ethics that are lacking, client rights and debatable end-of-life ethical and legal issues.

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Code of Ethics
Client/Patient Rights
Touchy Ethical/Legal Issues
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The ACA "Code of Ethic's with the terminally ill should involve some mention of religion/spirituality assessment as a core component of practice with this population. Chandler, Holden, and Kolander (1992) reported that understanding spiritual development is a complex issue and requires a lot of assessment time to get to the root of a client's issues. "All this time there is no known objective measure of spiritual development" (p. 171). In their article, they declared that spiritual preoccupation, spiritual wellness, and repression of the sublime all need to be assessed in order to show one's true root of spiritual development."

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