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Title: Professional and Ethical Issues


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Professional and Ethical Issues
  • Dr. Mario V. Norman

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Chapter 1 questions
  • You have been seeing an adolescent girl in a
    community health clinic for three months. Lately
    she complained of severe depression and says that
    life seems hopeless. She is threatening suicide
    and even wants details from you concerning how
    successfully she can go through with it. What
    would you do and why?
  • If you were on a job interview, how would respond
    to this question What do you consider to be the
    most pressing and central ethical issue facing
    the counselor?

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Chapter 1 cont
  • In the course of a counseling session, your
    client tells you that he is planning to do
    serious physical harm to his neighbor. What
    would you do and why?
  • A client reveals to you that he has stolen some
    expensive laboratory equipment from the college
    where you are a counselor. A week later the dean
    calls you into her office to talk with you about
    this particular client. What would you do and
    why?

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Ethical Decision Making Key Terms chapter 1
  • Law
  • Ethics (Aspirational Mandatory)
  • Standard Practice
  • Community standards
  • Values
  • Professionalism
  • Morality

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Definitions Key Terms
  • Law
  • Defines the minimum standards society will
    tolerate and is enforced by government
  • Ethics
  • Represents the ideal standards set and is
    enforced by professional associations
  • Aspirational Ethics
  • Refer to the highest professional standards of
    conduct to which counselors can aspire
  • Principle Ethics
  • Focuses on moral issues with the goal of solving
    a particular dilemma
  • What shall I do?
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Focuses on character traits of the counselor and
    non-obligatory ideals
  • Am I doing what is best for my client?

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Basic Moral Principles
  • Autonomy self determination
  • Beneficence promoting good for others
  • Nonmaleficence doing no harm
  • Justice fairness
  • Fidelity honor commitments
  • Veracity truthfulness

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Steps in Making Ethical Decisions
  • One approach to thinking through ethical
    dilemmas
  • Identify the problem or dilemma
  • Identify the potential issues involved
  • Review the relevant ethics codes
  • Know the applicable laws and regulations
  • Obtain consultation
  • Consider possible and probable courses of action
  • Enumerate the consequences of various decisions
  • Decide on what appears to be the best course of
    action
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