Ethical and Professional Issues in Counseling

For courses on ethical, professional and legal issues in counseling and psychology departments. This ethics text focuses on counseling and counseling psychology in a format that serves beginning students, provides a useful format and structure for professors teaching ethics courses, and inspires critical thought about ethical issues. Through case scenarios, reprints of many codes of ethics, and narrative information, this book not only functions as an introduction to professional counseling and counseling ethics, but it also serves as a compendium of contemporary ethical codes and issues.

Expanded, revised, and more reader-friendly, the second edition of this well-researched book again provides its exceptional coverage of the philosophical foundations of counseling. This is one of the most comprehensive, thorough, and readable books on the market today. After a thorough discussion of ethical principles and standards, the authors conscientiously examine ethical issues as they manifest themselves within several specialty areas—family counseling and school counseling, for example. They again include their highly-praised compendium of ethical codes—ideal for study by future counselors or as a reference for practitioners. This book addresses high interest topics such as genetics, eugenics, and managed care. It examines the variables and nuances of counseling clients of various ethical and cultural backgrounds. It also covers everything from office layout to maintaining records, from setting fees and billing to handling disagreements, computer-assisted counseling, online forums and computer-assisted assessment. For professionals in the field of counseling.