Locating and Integrating State Laws and Ethical Codes

Locating and Integrating State Laws and Ethical Codes

Current Ethical Standards Used by Counseling Professionals

The counselors of the mental health believe in the worth and dignity of the individuals. The counselors make a commitment towards the increase in the knowledge of the behavior of the humans as well as the understanding of others and themselves. Whilst following these endeavors, they try to make all the efforts in protecting the privacy and welfare of their patients. There are certain codes of ethics all the counselors follow in order to ensure the proper welfare of the patients.

It has been observed that the current ethical standard with ACA “American Counseling Association” has got great popularity in the world of ethics. It provides number of ethical codes for the counselors to conduct its therapy on the patients. ACA is the scientific, educational and professional organization whose members work in a range of settings and give out in numerous capacities. It aids the mission of introducing ethical standards in the world. These codes are the guidance of conducting professional course of action for providing best services to their client.

The ethical codes of ACA are:

Primary Responsibility

The basic responsibility of the counselors is to value the dignity and encourage the welfare of clients (www.counseling.org).

Confidentiality

Counselors are not allowed to share confidential information without the consent of client or without having ethical or legal sound justification (www.counseling.org).

Cultural and Developmental Sensitivity

It is important for Counselors to communicate information in ways to client, which are both culturally and developmentally appropriate. If the client finds difficulty in understanding the language used by therapists, they should be offered necessary services, for instance arranging a translator or interpreter (www.counseling.org).

Avoiding Harm

Counselors work to avoid harming their trainees, clients and research participants for minimizing the unanticipated and unanticipated harm (www.counseling.org).

Current Clients

Romantic counselor or Sexual -client relationships or interactions with current clients is firmly prohibited (www.counseling.org).

Protecting Clients

Under the settings of groups, counselors take reasonable precautions to protect their clients from emotional, psychological trauma and physical harm (www.counseling.org).

Proper Diagnosis

It is significant for counselor to provide and take special care for diagnosing mental disorders in client. Counselor should use assessment techniques to determine client care, and carefully select the appropriate mode of counseling (www.counseling.org).

Cultural Sensitivity

Counselor is obliged to recognize the cultural effects of the client's defined problems. The cultural and socioeconomic of client's experiences are regarded as the mental diagnosing disorders.

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