Counselling: Ethics and Social Care
Contents
Page Content
1 Cover page
2 Contents Page
3 2.1
4 2.1 contd.
5 2.2
6 2.3
7 3.1
8 3.2
9 3.3
10 Bibliography
2.1 Explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health & social care. (400 words)
The purpose of this report is to explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health and social care.
“Everyone who works within the health and social care sector has to abide by the ethical guidelines. “Ethics can be defined as a set of moral principles or rules of conduct.” (O’Farrell, 1999)”
The three main elements of the ethics framework are values, principles and personal moral qualities, counsellors and supervisor practitioners must respect their clients own ethics or beliefs this in turn influences the counselling interactions within health and social care. The British association for counselling and psychotherapy (BACP) has outlined six major ethical principles these include, self respect, Individual anatomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice and fidelity. Values inform principles and they are important to the counsellor to expressing their commitment to ethics. The values of counsellors should include, respecting human rights and dignity, ensuring the integrity of professional relationships, enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application and alleviating personal distress and suffering. The awareness of counsellor limitations is very important, this includes Recognising that clients are likely to possess distinctive world views that differ from those of counsellors and Counsellors attempt to understand and work within the cultural framework of clients. (Steenbarger, B.N 1993)
A counsellor’s ethical responsibility is to acknowledge and recognise ethic, racial and cultural factors and that this is in turn significant to the counselling
Page Content
1 Cover page
2 Contents Page
3 2.1
4 2.1 contd.
5 2.2
6 2.3
7 3.1
8 3.2
9 3.3
10 Bibliography
2.1 Explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health & social care. (400 words)
The purpose of this report is to explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health and social care.
“Everyone who works within the health and social care sector has to abide by the ethical guidelines. “Ethics can be defined as a set of moral principles or rules of conduct.” (O’Farrell, 1999)”
The three main elements of the ethics framework are values, principles and personal moral qualities, counsellors and supervisor practitioners must respect their clients own ethics or beliefs this in turn influences the counselling interactions within health and social care. The British association for counselling and psychotherapy (BACP) has outlined six major ethical principles these include, self respect, Individual anatomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice and fidelity. Values inform principles and they are important to the counsellor to expressing their commitment to ethics. The values of counsellors should include, respecting human rights and dignity, ensuring the integrity of professional relationships, enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application and alleviating personal distress and suffering. The awareness of counsellor limitations is very important, this includes Recognising that clients are likely to possess distinctive world views that differ from those of counsellors and Counsellors attempt to understand and work within the cultural framework of clients. (Steenbarger, B.N 1993)
A counsellor’s ethical responsibility is to acknowledge and recognise ethic, racial and cultural factors and that this is in turn significant to the counselling
Bibliography: http://www.irish-counselling.ie/Search.aspx?location=Leitrim : http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/counselling/Pages/Accesstotherapy.aspx: