Counseling and Ethics

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews and discusses the issue of ethics in counseling. The paper reports that in order to facilitate ethical counseling, the American Mental Health Counselor Association provides a guideline as to how counselors work with their clients. The paper explains that this guideline takes into consideration that the client is experiencing difficulties in his life, is extremely vulnerable and often follows the suggestions given by a professional counselor.

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"This guide identifies five moral principles and, like the AMHCA, spells out guidelines and philosophical attitudes that counselors are encouraged to adhere to as they approach the counseling relationship, such as autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice and fidelity. They recognize that different professionals may implement different courses of action in the same situation, and therefore admit that there is no simple answer to complex problems, but that honesty, along with keeping the best interests of the client at heart with no thought for gain or personal motives should guide the counselor's actions (Forester-Miller and Davis, p. 2-3)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Mental Health Counseling Association. Code of Ethics. (2000). Retrieved February 12, 2007 from http://www.amhca.org/code/.
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