- Code
- PSD 220
- Name
- Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Counseling
- Semester
- 4
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
Professional ethics provide critical guidance to the provision of all services as counselors. This course will offer an in depth focus on the relevant knowledge, awareness and skills necessary to practice safely and responsibly in counseling and school psychology. Students will engage in dialog throughout the course and work in peer consultation teams to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas and adopt sound ethical and professional practices. Considerations of diversity are extremely important in the context of counseling ethics. Sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, sex/gender, and people with disabilities is imperative in learning how to apply ethical standards in a positive and competent manner to all populations. Students will complete written and oral assignments designed to further awareness and mirror actual standards of the profession.
- Objectives
-
At the end of the course, the student should have basic knowledge of, but not limited to, the following areas: - Students will explore their personal values as they relate to a professional ethical code. - Students will gain knowledge and awareness of the content, application and interrelationship of the Code of Ethics, standards of professional practice, and state mental health statutes. - Students will develop a framework for approaching ethics in counseling from a positive and preventative perspective, striving for the highest standards of the profession. - Students will have an appreciation of cultural influences to ethical reasoning and learn to consider how ethical standards are perceived and applied across different groups of people. - Students will learn to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas using a formal decision making model. - Students will learn sound risk management practices. - Students and the instructor will share responsibility for creating and maintaining an effective learning environment.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Introduction to professional ethics: - Professional codes of ethics - Ethical decision-making - Steps of ethicak decision-making - How to deal with unethical behaviors of the colleagues - Self-evaluation: a questionnaire about the impressions and beliefs on ethical and professional issues - Conclusions
- 2
- The counselor as a person and as a professional: - Introduction - Self-awareness and the influence of needs and personality of the therapist - Personal therapy for the counselors - Transference and countertransference - Client dependency - Stress in the counseling profession - Outburst and damage of the counselor - Vitality protection through self-care - Conclusions
- 3
- Values and the helping relationship: - Introduction - Exploring the values and the role of the counselor - Imposing ethics of the values toward the client - Values conflict with regard to behavior and sexual impressions - Values conflict with regard to abortion - The role of spiritual and religious values in counseling - Conclusions
- 4
- Multicultural perspectives and diversity issues: - Introduction - The problem of “the cultural tunnel vision” - The challenges of finding a diverse population of clients - Codes of ethics from a diversity perspective - Cultural values and assumptions in therapy - Addressing sexual orientation - Addressing client-counselor - Conclusions
- 5
- Client rights and counselor responsibilities: - Introduction - The rights of clients to issue a consent - The content of the consent given by the client - The responsibilities of the counselor during the registration of the counseling process - Ethical issues in virtual counseling - The work with children and adolescents - Involuntary work and human rights - Conclusions
- 6
- Confidentiality: Ethical and legal issues: - Introduction - Confidentiality, privileged communication and privacy - Issues of privacy with the telecommunication tools - The duty of warning and protection - Protection of children, seniors and adults dependent on the damage - Confidentiality and issues of AIDS-HIV - Conclusions
- 7
- Managing boundaries and multiple relationships: - Introduction - Ethics of multiple relationships - Controversies on the limitation issues - Managing relationships in a small community - Receiving and giving gifts - Social relationships with the clients - Sexual attraction in the client-therapist relationship - Sexual relationships in therapy: ethical and legal issues - Conclusions
- 8
- Midterm exam
- 9
- Professional competence and training: - Introduction - Therapist’s competencies: Ethical and legal aspects - Ethical issues in training therapists - Knowledge and skills evaluation and personal functioning - Professional education and demonstration of competencies - Conclusions
- 10
- Issues in supervision and consultation: - Introduction - Ethical issues and clinical supervision - The responsibilities and duties of the supervisor - Ethical and effective practice of clinical supervisors - Competencies of the supervisor - Legal aspects of supervision - Special issues in supervising school counselors - Ethical issues in counseling - Conclusions
- 11
- Issues in theory and practice: - Introduction - Development of a counseling style - Sharing responsibilities in therapy - Techniques of counseling - Assessment and diagnosis as professional issues - Tests in counseling - Conclusions
- 12
- Ethical issues in couples and family therapy: - Introduction - Ethical standards in couples and family therapy - Contemporary professional issues - Values in couples and family therapy - Responsibilities of couples and family therapists - Confidentiality in couples and family therapy - Conclusions
- 13
- Ethical issues in group work: - Introduction - Ethical issues in training and supervising group leaders - Ethical issues in preparing and managing groups - Confidentiality in groups - Values in group counseling - Ethics in using techniques in groups - Ethics in the counseling process - Conclusions
- 14
- Ethical issues in community work: - Introduction - Ethical practice in working in the community - Perspective of social justice - Protection competencies - Promotion of change in the community - Work in the system - Conclusions
- 15
- Inter-professional issues: - Introduction - Profesional licensing and creditation - Overview, consultation and supervision with colleagues - Conclusions
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Knowledge of policies and procedures of the practice setting.
- 2
- Understanding of the process of making an ethical decisions.
- 3
- Ability to recognize ethical dilemmas in practice setting.
- 4
- Ability to recognize when clinical supervision or legal consultation is necessary.
- 5
- Ability to recognize issues related to ethics, laws, regulations, and professional standards.
- 6
- Understand the limitations to confidentiality and parameters of mandatory reporting.
- 7
- Understand the need and how to create a safety plan for clients who present with potential self-harm, suicide, abuse, or violence.
- 8
- Understand how to take action when ethical and legal dilemmas emerge.
- 9
- Understand how to practice within defined scope of practice and competence and how to obtain knowledge of advances and theory regarding effective clinical practice.
- 10
- Understand the necessity of monitoring personal issues and problems to insure they do not impact the therapy process adversely or create vulnerability for misconduct.
- 11
- Understand how to maintain client records with timely and accurate notes
- 12
- When to (how to) consult with peers and/or supervisors if personal issues threaten to adversely impact clinical work.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 40% 40%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 40%
- Final exam percent
- 60%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 15 15
- Final exam
- 1 20 20
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 125
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00