Ethics In Counseling

In the counseling field, there are many rules a theorist need to go by to bean affective counselor. There are many concepts and developments that goes into each of the ethical rules out there for a counselor to abide by. The client may decide you strongly disapprove of, leaving you torn on whether to support there or not. The various ethical codes for branches of the counseling professions give you guidance on the tough calls. Therefore, Ethics comes into place and this will protect you and your client so that the work setting will stay professional overall. This paper will focus on an ethical issue in my profession and possible prevention options. Another thing I will explore in this paper is possible remediation for the Ethical issue.
The therapist in the first session, needs to talk to the client about some of the rules and boundaries that are going to take place. Such things as giving your client a hug, there needs to be set thing so that the client is aware and if they break certain rules, the therapist can remind them again about it. This will insure that the client will not engage in certain behaviors so that the ethical issues will not take place. Another thing the therapist needs to is not engage with the client on social media, this includes blocking them on all your social media sites that you use, this will show the professional side and have strong boundaries in place. Now that we have talked in detail about some possible prevention options, lets now talk about some remediation from this ethical issue. Having sexual relations with your current clients as a counselor is a huge ethical issue and there are many ways to prevents certain things like that from happening. One remediation that would assist in this ethical issue is if the therapist has a sense the relationship with their client is gone down that road, they should reach out to their supervisor so that they can bounce off some ideas from not participating in the ethical