This guide details the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics from the American Counseling Association and the application of its principles to practice. After discussion of the code's evolution and foundations, developing a personal ethical stance, the ethical decision-making process, ethical decision-making models and elements, and enforcement of the code (along with an inventory of attitudes and beliefs about ethical issues), it presents each standard of the code, which focuses on the counseling relationship; confidentiality and privacy; professional responsibility; relationships with other professionals; evaluation, assessment, and interpretation; supervision, training, and teaching; research and publication; distance counseling, technology, and social media; and resolving ethical issues--with case vignettes for illustration. Subsequent chapters present ethical issues and case studies, with analysis, of client rights and informed consent; social justice and counseling across cultures; confidentiality; competence; managing value conflicts; counseling minors; managing boundaries; working with clients who may harm themselves; technology, social media, and online counseling; supervision and counselor education; research and publication; and ethics and the law. Additional contributors are counselors mainly from the US. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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About the Authors |
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About the Contributors |
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Making the Best Use of the Casebook |
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Evolution of the ACA Ethical Standards and the Casebook |
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Foundations of Codes of Ethics |
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Developing a Personal Ethical Stance |
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The Ethical Decision-Making Process |
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A Review of Ethical Decision-Making Models |
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Elements of Ethical Decision Making |
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Enforcement of the ACA Code of Ethics |
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An Inventory of Your Attitudes and Beliefs About Ethical Issues |
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Part II ACA Code of Ethics With Illustrative Vignettes |
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Section A The Counseling Relationship |
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Section B Confidentiality and Privacy |
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Section C Professional Responsibility |
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Section D Relationships With Other Professionals |
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Section E Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation |
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Section F Supervision, Training, and Teaching |
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Section G Research and Publication |
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Section H Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media |
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Section I Resolving Ethical Issues |
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Part III Issues and Case Studies |
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Chapter 1 Client Rights and Informed Consent |
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Case Study 1 Keep Kendra's Secret, or Not? |
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Case Study 2 A Minor (?) Client |
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Chapter 2 Social Justice and Counseling Across Cultures |
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Case Study 3 She's Done This Before |
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Case Study 4 Working With an Immigrant Family |
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Chapter 3 Confidentiality |
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Case Study 5 The Slap---How to Best Help Hope |
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Case Study 6 A Supervisee Feels Betrayed |
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Case Study 7 I Feel Exhausted |
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Case Study 8 Couples Counseling Gone Wrong |
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Chapter 5 Managing Value Conflicts |
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Case Study 10 A Parental Dilemma: Hastening the Death of a Child |
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Chapter 6 Counseling Minor Clients |
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Case Study 11 A Legal Guardian Presses for Confidential Information |
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Case Study 12 A Pregnant Teenager: A School Counselor's Quandary |
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Chapter 7 Managing Boundaries |
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Case Study 13 Disputing Unhealthy Beliefs or Imposing Values? |
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Case Study 14 If You Will Excuse Me |
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Chapter 8 Working With Clients Who May Harm Themselves |
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Case Study 15 Suicide or a Well-Reasoned End-of-Life Decision? |
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Case Study 16 A Suicidal Teenager |
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Chapter 9 Technology, Social Media, and Online Counseling |
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Case Study 17 Making Social Media Decisions for an Agency |
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Case Study 18 A Client's Friend Request |
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Chapter 10 Supervision and Counselor Education |
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Case Study 19 Poor Supervision or Impaired Student? |
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Case Study 20 An Imposition of Values? |
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Chapter 11 Research and Publication |
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Case Study 21 Expert Review of a Research Study |
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Case Study 22 A Question of Authorship |
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Chapter 12 The Intersection of Ethics and Law |
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Anne Marie "Nancy" Wheeler |
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Case Study 23 A Student Commits Suicide |
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Anne Marie "Nancy" Wheeler |
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Case Study 24 Good Intentions Go Awry |
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Anne Marie "Nancy" Wheeler |
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Highlights of Ethical Practice |
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References |
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Barbara Herlihy, PhD, LPC, LPC-S, is University Research Professor in the Counselor Education graduate program at the University of New Orleans. She has served on the ACA Ethics Committee as chair (198789) and as a member (198687, 199394) and as a member of the taskforces to revise the 1995 and 2005 ACA codes of ethics. Dr. Herlihy is the coauthor of several books on ethical issues in counseling: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling (2014) with Ted Remley; the ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, 5th and 6th editions (1996, 2006), Dual Relationships in Counseling (1992), and Boundary Issues in Counseling: Multiple Roles and Relationships, 2nd and 3rd editions (2006, 2015), all with Gerald Corey; and the ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, 4th edition (1990) with Larry Golden. She is also the author or coauthor of more than 65 journal articles and book chapters on ethics, social justice and multicultural counseling, feminist therapy, and other topics. She is the recipient of the Southern Association for Counselor
Education and Supervision Courtland Lee Social Justice Award and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Distinguished Mentor Award. She is a frequent presenter of seminars and workshops on ethics across the United States and internationally, most recently in Malta, Venezuela, and Mexico.
Gerald Corey, EdD, ABPP, NCC, is a Professor Emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed counseling psychologist; and a Fellow of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), and the American Psychological Association, in both Division 17 and Division 49. He is the recipient (with Marianne Schneider Corey) of both the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011 and the ASGWs Eminent Career Award in 2001.
Dr. Corey has authored or coauthored 15 textbooks in counseling that are currently in print, has made five educational DVD programs on various aspects of counseling, and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters. Some of his coauthored books include Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (2015) with Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey, and Patrick Callanan; Becoming a Helper (2016) and I Never Knew I Had a Choice (2014), both with Marianne Schneider Corey; and Groups: Process and Practice (2014) with Marianne Schneider Corey and Cindy Corey. Some of his other books include Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy (2013) and Theory and Practice of Group Counseling (2016). In the past 40 years the Coreys have conducted group counseling training workshops for mental health professionals at many universities in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany, Belgium, Scotland, England, and Ireland.