privacy of clients. In the world of mental health counseling‚ counselors’ commitment to confidentiality is the basis of effective practice. Confidentiality prohibits mental health counselors from disclosing information about the client to third parties (e.g. family members‚ employer). Confidentiality is critical to establish trust between consumer and mental health counselor‚ which is imperative for promoting open communication of clients during counseling. In order to be ethnically and legally compliant
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Counseling Youth in Times of Crisis “Teenagers can be like elephants. If you’ve spent any time around them‚ this thought has probably crossed your mind‚ but hopefully wasn’t said out loud.” We sometimes think teenagers aren’t able to go far in life‚ or be anything but a problem. Living a carefree life not worried about anything or one around them. Some adults have no idea of all the struggles teenagers have to deal with. Just like adults they deal with stress‚ death‚ peer pressure‚ and
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Counseling Specializations and Multidisciplinary Teams Counseling is a relatively new profession (Aubrey‚ 1977‚ 1982). It developed in the late 1890s and early 1900s‚ and was interdisciplinary from its inception. “Some of the functions of counselors were and are shared by persons in other professions” (Herr & Fabian‚ 1993‚ p. 3). Before the 1900s‚ most counseling was in the form of advice or information. In the United States‚ counseling developed out of a humanitarian concern to improve the lives
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Ethical dilemmas and multicultural issues are things that you will come across in your professional career. When we seek the assistance of a counselor in schools or in any other setting we want to know that what we share will not be shared with others. We want to feel comfortable and know that our standards and ethics will not be violated. While working in a school setting we came across Amy who is a 16 year old African American high school student. She went to talk to her high school counselor
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development as a group participant McDermott (2002) suggests that groups are defined by consisting of at least two persons‚ that share space and share a purpose. The interactions taking place amongst members may be important in the development of common goals‚ norms and roles‚ and some sense of belonging. Within the context of a group‚ participants find the possibility of making comparisons between themselves and others‚ which can become an influential source of control and reward for members. Therefore
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Personal Ethics: Counseling Perspectives Abstract: This paper will discuss the personalization of counseling ethics for myself as I work toward and become a licensed professional counselor. I will use the five ethical principles considered fundamental to the ethics of counseling. The five principles are: autonomy‚ beneficence‚ nonmaleficence‚ justice‚ and fidelity. I will discuss how these principles will guide and inform my practice as a licensed professional counselor. I will define each term
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Dan feels that it is not necessary to keep records because his clients are well functioning and their issues are not severe‚ this could create many problems for Dan and possibly his clients. As a counselor Dan should contribute to the welfare of a client. There may be situations in which client records would be a benefit to the client for various reasons
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1 Elucidate on the theological and psychological basis of counseling. Counseling psychology focuses on providing therapeutic treatments to clients who experience a wide variety of symptoms. It is also one of the largest specialty areas within psychology. The Society of Counseling Psychology describes the field as " a psychological specialty [that] facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span with a focus on emotional‚ social‚ vocational‚ educational‚ health-related‚
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COUNSELING SPECIALIZATIONS AND MULITDISCPIINARY TEAMS Counseling Specializations and Multidisciplinary Teams Juanita Duffy COUN 5004 Dr. BlaydesAbstract This paper discusses the importance of collaboration within the different specializations of the counseling field. Two specializations‚ mental health counseling and addictions counseling are reviewed and are brought together to help a hypothetical 12 year old girl “Ashley” in her own education and problem-solving while in therapy
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BICOL UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Legazpi City REACTION PAPER ON THE SEMINAR The MAGC class recently sponsored a seminar for the fourth year education student of the Bicol University College of Education last Oct. 20‚ 2012 held at the BUCE Training Hall. The topic mainly focused on the “Counselling Theories‚ Techniques‚ Skills and Relationship Counselling” which was discussed by a very competent resource speaker‚ Dr. Marylendra A. Penetrante‚ an awarded psychologist of the Philippines
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