Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action
- 1st
- Sage Publications, 1993
- 232
This book covers the major responsibilities trainee counsellors and counsellors in practice must be aware of before they take on clients. Foreword, Acknowledgements, The Background, Introduction, What is Counselling?, The Framework for Ethics and Standards of Practice, Responsibility to the Client, Client Safety and Legal Liability and Insurance, Client Autonomy, The Suicidal Clint, Counsellor Competence, Avoiding the Exploitation of Clients, Confidentiality, The Counsellor and Others, Responsibility to Oneself and Colleagues and the Community, Counselling-Supervision, Record-Keeping, Monitoring Counselling, The Whole Picture, Ethical Problem-Solving, Epilogue, Appendices, Code of Ethics and Practice for Counsellors, Useful Names and Addresses, Bibliography, Index.