This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the counselling professions. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these. An accompanying online resource website provides you with videos, book chapters and journal articles about ethical practice.
Counselling in Action is a bestselling series of practical introductions designed for trainees and practitioners. Each book introduces a theoretical approach or practice issue and provides a guide to the process of counselling. Covering theory and practice, they are trusted companions for many courses in counselling and psychotherapy and other professions such as nursing, social work and teaching.
Part I: Setting the Scene
1: Introduction
2: Making Sense of the Counselling Professions
3: Sources of Counselling Ethics
4: Relational Ethics in the Counselling Professions
Part II: Responsibilities in Practice
5: Safety, Negligence and Insurance
6. Client Autonomy
7. Ethical Practice and Suicide Risk
8. Avoiding the Exploitation of Clients
9. Confidentiality
10. Counselling in Virtual Spaces
11. Working within Social Diversity
Part III: Counsellors and responsibility to others
12. Bridging Ethics to Practice
13. Counselling Supervision
14. Counsellors' Broader Responsibilities
15. Record-keeping
16. Evaluating the Impact of Counselling
Part IV: The Whole Picture
17. Ethical Problem Solving
18. Implications for Practice
