Ethics in Counseling Chapters 3 & 4

Culturally Encapsulated Counselor

A counselor who defines reality by a single set of cultural values, failing to evaluate other viewpoints, and therefore developing stereotyped views.

Social Justice

Access to equity and addressing systemic barriers

Advocacy

Turning commitment into action.

Self-Awareness

Understanding how your personal identity impacts your values, beliefs and attitudes/biases

Cross-Cultural

A Counselor should understand that this process is ()-(), and involves you and the client with many different backgrounds.

Intersectionality

The need to understand marginalization based on oppression in the lens of inter-locking systems. Think about the influences of race, class, gender and culture.

Personal

Our () values influence the Counseling process, and we should be are of our own biases.

Well-being

We must set aside imposing our own beliefs on clients to prioritize their ()-()

Differently

Differing cultures will response () to crisis events. A Counselor should be aware of the cultural circumstances of each individual and how it may impact their reaction.

Fiduciary Relationship

The counselor’s promise to act in the best interests of the client. Serves as a legal burden.

Countertransference

The process in which counselors project their emotions onto the client, and their own needs become entangled in the therapeutic relationship.

Differential

A power () exists between counselors and clients. it’s important to provide the opportunity for the abilities to express themselves without fear of judgement, and work collaboratively with the therapist.

Mandated Clients

Clients who are required to meet a condition for release or progress in the criminal justice system.

Therapeutic

When we move from an evaluative to () role, it is our job to remind and cover informed consent with the client.

Applicability

Some techniques have limited () with culturally diverse clients, and we should be aware that many traditional techniques take a specific world-view that may only be experienced by a select few.

Plans

We must have () in place to identify clients, who can access their records, and how to transfer to another counselor if an emergency occurs.

Abandonment

The inappropriate termination of the counseling relationship that puts the client at risk.

Adequate

Counselors must give () time for referrals, resources, or transition to other services when the termination process begins.

Personal, Developmentally

Every counselor needs a () disclosure statements. These should also be () and culturally appropriate for clients.