Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions

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Designed for undergraduate and graduate students in the counseling and related fields, this text introduces ethics and shows its applications to all aspects of human services. The topics include multicultural perspectives, client rights, confidentiality, boundaries, professional competence, supervision and consultation issues, and issues in couples therapy, family therapy, group and community work. Each chapter includes a section for self-inventory related to the initial chapters on self-awareness and values.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Up-to-date and challenging, this best-selling text is a practical manual that helps future and current professionals deal with ethical issues that they will confront at the various stages in their development. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. They raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and provide readers with many opportunities to refine their own thinking and to actively develop their own position. The authors explore such questions as: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? What considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations?


Book Info
California State Univ., Fullerton. Textbook for graduate and undergraduate students. Focuses on the ethical and professional issues that most affect the actual practice of counseling and therapy. Includes prechapter inventories, chapter summaries and suggested activities. Softcover.


About the Author
Gerald Corey is professor emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton and a licensed psychologist. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses-and was coordinator of the Human Services department at CSU Fullerton for nine years. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology, a National Certified Counselor, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Counseling Psychology) and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. With his colleagues he has conducted workshops in various countries including the United States with a special focus on training in group counseling.


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Deals with ethical issues that all professionals confront, emphasizing that ethical decision making is an ongoing process with no easy answers. Case vignettes, open-ended questions, and self-inventories, as well as chapter exercises and activities, invite students to participate in the learning process. Coverage includes client rights, confidentiality, sexual issues, diversity, and issues in group work and family therapy. Includes appendices of professional codes. For graduate and undergraduate students in the helping professions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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