Counselling as part of the discipline of psychiatry and academic discipline of psychology caters different cognitive (mental), affective (emotional), behavioural and even other pathological cases. With this, provide below are the different professionals and practitioners who could conduct counselling (as described by the Mental Health America (MHA)):
Educational counselling can be done by teachers, they are considered as counsellors inside the classroom or in school. They help and guide students not just in decision making but some problems and struggles of the learners are usually shared to their mentors or teachers.
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This is to ensure quality counselling services and to protect both the counsellor and counselee. To summarize, counsellors must remember the following code of ethics:
THE COUNSELLING RELATIONSHIP. This refers to the client-counsellor kind of relationship. As a counsellor, his or her primary concern is to respect client’s dignity and promote social welfare. It is important that the counsellor document all services conducted and at the same time safeguard all documents related to the service. An informed consent is also one of the ethics. Informed consent means it would be the client who will decide whether to continue the counselling or not. Every client must not be forced to be counselled. The counsellor must also see to it that harms are to be avoided and values must be inculcated. Since counselling is a crucial job where in a counsellor must always be careful not to be involved in any sexual or romantic relationship with his or her client. Moreover, counsellors are not allowed to conduct the service to person with whom they in a romantic relationships or sexual contacts before. A counsellor could be a friend but this does not mean that a counsellor must be a friend of the client in the Social media and other social networking sites, this is prohibited. It also not allowed conducting counselling among family members and closest friend. This is to avoid bias …show more content…
when the client has contagious, life-threatening disease. The ACA code of ethics provides an explanation: “When clients disclose that they have a disease commonly known to be both communicable and life threatening, counselors may be justified in disclosing information to identifiable third parties, if the parties are known to be at serious and foreseeable risk of contracting the disease. Prior to making a disclosure, counselors assess the intent of clients to inform the third parties about their disease or to engage in any behaviors that may be harmful to an identifiable third party. Counselors adhere to relevant state laws concerning disclosure about disease