Topic 4 Counselor Ethics And Responsibilities Assignment Gui

Topic 4 Counselor Ethics And Responsibilities Assignment Guidelines

Follow the directions below to write a paper of 1,750-2,100 words on counselor ethics and responsibilities. Provide a thoughtful response to each of the following sections, including specific, concrete examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the section headings provided below to separate each section of your paper. Your final deliverable should be one cohesive paper addressing all six sections along with an introduction and conclusion.

Paper For Above instruction

Part One: Please note that part one must be written in the third person.

Section 1: Client Rights

Describe how you will incorporate the following five principles of ethical practice in order to maintain your clients' rights:

  • Autonomy
  • Nonmaleficence
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
  • Fidelity

Discuss the informed consent process and how it protects client rights including:

  • Billing
  • Right to Privacy
  • HIPAA compliance
  • Compliance with credentialing board requirements for incorporating informed consent into practice

Section 2: Responsibility to Warn and Protect

Identify the factors that you will consider in order to determine your “duty to warn” and “duty to protect” responsibilities as a counselor. Be sure to consider ethical guidelines as well as the laws pertaining to the "duty to warn" and "duty to protect" in the state in which you plan to practice.

Section 3: Client Record-Keeping

Discuss the role of client record keeping in protecting the following:

  • a client's right to a professional standard of care
  • the counselor from liability

Part Two: Please note this section can be written in the first person.

Section 4: Self-care

  1. After reading the introduction of Section C “Professional Responsibility” in the ACA Code of Ethics, discuss what the ACA Code of Ethics says about self-care.
  2. Explain how you plan on maintaining a healthy balance between your professional and personal life.
  3. Share what healthy self-care activities you have engaged in in the past or present.
  4. Describe what healthy self-care activities you have considered but haven’t yet implemented.
  5. Identify some red flags suggesting that you may need to address personal issues to avoid personal impairment.
  6. Provide your opinion on counselors being counseled. Do you agree with that concept? Why or why not? Consider if your program requires it.

Section 5: Advocacy

Visit the American Counseling Association (Government Affairs > Take Action) page. Summarize how you can get involved in advocating for counselors and the counseling profession at the governmental level (approx. 100 words).

Section 6: Counselor Values

  1. Select two of the following issues you feel strongest about:
  • Abortion: A 19-year-old rape victim wants an abortion, but her parents oppose it on religious grounds. They threaten to disown her if she proceeds. The young woman is firm in her decision and seeks your help in addressing her parents' attitudes.
  • Gay adoption: John and Bill, in a committed relationship for 7 years, want to begin a family. They are considering using a surrogate or adopting a child, and have differing opinions.
  • Assisted suicide: Eleanor, 87, with terminal cancer, plans to end her life but is undecided about how or whether to discuss this with her family. She seeks your guidance but is not interested in revisiting her decision.
  • Extramarital affairs: Both spouses in a couple are having affairs. They want help strengthening their marriage but endorse an “open marriage” concept that rejects monogamy.
  • Describe your personal values and attitudes towards the selected issues. Explain how you would counsel the client in each situation, referencing ethical codes from ACA, NBCC, or NAADAC.

    • References

    • American Counseling Association. (2014). ACA Code of Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.counseling.org/resources/aca-code-of-ethics.pdf
    • Corey, G., Corey, M. S., & Corey, C. (2018). Becoming a helper (8th ed.). Cengage Learning.
    • Barnett, J. E., & Miller, M. J. (2018). Preventing burnout and fostering self-care: Strategies for counselors. Journal of Counseling & Development, 96(4), 441–448.
    • Fisher, C. B. (2017). Decoding the ethics code: A practical guide for psychologists (4th ed.). SAGE Publications.
    • National Board for Certified Counselors. (2015). NBCC Code of Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.nbcc.org/Assets/Ethics/NBCCCodeofEthics.pdf
    • NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. (2016). NAADAC Code of Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.naadac.org/assets/1756
    • Knapp, S., & Vandecreek, L. (2012). Ethical challenges in counseling (4th ed.). American Counseling Association.
    • Remley, T. P., & Herlihy, B. (2018). Ethical, legal, and professional issues in counseling (6th ed.). Pearson.
    • Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2016). Theories of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Cengage Learning.
    • Welfel, E. R. (2016). The counselor's guide to working with diverse populations. Cengage Learning.

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