ETHICS IN COUNSELLING

Ethical and Practice Elements That Contribute Towards the Establishment of Trust and Good Practice in Counselling

Ethical and Practice Elements That Contribute Towards the Establishment of Trust and Good Practice in Counselling

Introduction

The counselling is a structured and permissive service that allows customers to better understand themselves, so they can be able to make affirmative steps in the light of the new approach they want to give their life. This theory follows all techniques employed for aimed at developing an open relationship and permissive understanding of oneself during the treatment process and beyond and the trend towards a positive action on its own initiative. The form of psycho-counselling and counselling explicitly or implicitly raise the question of resource changes for the client. This may be a state of relaxation, confidence, calmness, and prudence, etc. The idea is to find a resource change (inside or outside the client) and add this resource to the problematic experience (Troemel, 1980). In the approach of personal theory of counselling, specific resource builds relationship of counsellor with the client. Obviously, this valuable resource can occur only in special circumstances, "high" therapeutic relationship. Such a relationship cannot be the result of contact a professional who knows the technique of exposure with the patient (Merry, 2004).

Ethics in Counselling

Ethics is a group of moral principles. Various institutions have published a Code of Ethics to serve as a guideline for professional counsellors. This code serves as a guideline for professional counsellors, as well as a basis on which to process complaints and ethical concerns against counsellors. Ethics is important in counselling, as they are a means to protect the welfare of the client and counsellors by clearly outlining what is appropriate. (Ivey, 2010) There are a number of standards and guidelines which need to be followed by a counsellor or a practitioner. It was not late when to realize the importance of such standards and norms. However, it is also important to mention that the standards and guidelines are compulsory to follow. Ethics in counselling has a significant role. A practitioner cannot succeed in his profession without practicing ethics in his profession. It might be asked that why is it essential to talk about ethics in counselling. There is no doubt that counsellors should have a virtuous character, they should believe in values, conscience and honesty, but is that enough? Obviously, one needs to have a good character, conscience and honesty, which are eminent virtues. However, it needs to be cleared that, such values and principles are inadequate to deal with the conflicts which can take place in any counsellor's practice.

Person Centred Counselling-An Ethical Approach

One of the ethical approaches of counselling is person-centred counselling. The person behind the development of Person-Centred or Client-Centred Counselling was Carl Rogers who was an influential psychologist of the United States. Person-Centred counselling has its roots to non directive way of treatment which can be designed in a manner that the counsellor does not lead the session; instead, the individual counselling do ...