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This is a well respected guideline for Coaches to understand and apply ethics in their practice.
What is the ICF Core Competency #1 - Demonstrates Ethical Practice.
Subpoena, intent to harm or request for disclosure.
What are the three reasons you may break confidentiality?
This is the range of services and interventions that you are competent and authorized to provide as a personal coach.
What is a scope of practice?
These core values are the basis of the ICF’s code of ethics.
What are professionalism, collaboration, humanity and equity?
A type of advertising that upholds a brand’s values and standards within the ethical guidelines of that profession.
What is ethical marketing?
You can do this by always being honest and using integrity with clients and other stakeholders.
How can a coach demonstrate ethics in their practice?
The big ones are integrity, competence, respect, accountability and self-regulation.
What ethical principles should guide a coaches practice?
These are three things that a well defined scope of practice protects you and your client against.
What is potential harm, liability or confusion?
They will guide ethical reflection, provide education, and weigh in on ethical decision-making.
What are the ways the ICF Code of Ethics serves coaches?
Making false claims, using scare tactics and slandering competitors.
What are examples of unethical marketing?
Recognizing a persons identity, environment, experiences, values, beliefs.
What are some things Coaches must be sensitive to?
One relates to coaches not sharing a clients information and the other relates to the clients control over their own data.
What is the difference between confidentiality and privacy?
It's all about zooming in on your qualifications, certification, training, experience, and a coach’s ethical standards.
What is a scope of practice based on?
This organization provides a comprehensive code of ethics for professional coaches.
What is the ICF?
This kind of information should never be shared on your advertising without expressed written consent.
What is a client’s name, identifying information, experience or story?
Continuing education, review and networking with other coaches.
What are ways to stay up to date with ICF Code of Ethics and best practices?
A coach should obtain this before discussing a client's progress, or issues with anyone.
What is written consent?
Exploring counseling topics, a client’s mental health, past trauma or therapeutic techniques are otherwise known as...
What are the limitations of a coach’s scope of practice?
This type of relationship should be avoided between coach and client to prevent conflict of interest.
What are dual or multiple relationships?
For example, a website, blog, Instagram or Facebook.
What are tools and platforms that can be ethically used to market your coaching practice?
Integrity, excellence, collaboration, and respect.
What are the ICF core values?
This should be done as often as necessary to ensure your client's comfort.
What is verbally confirming the confidentiality agreement.
This is the ethical expectation of a coach when presented with a request or topic outside of their scope of practice.
What is reinforcing the scope of practice and referring to the appropriate professionals?
Some examples are water cooler talks, Zoom meetings and group chat forums.
What are additional resources offered by the ICF to stay current on Coaching ethical standards?
The abbreviation TRUST stands for these five approaches to building and ethical practice.
What is True, Relevant, Understandable, Sympathetic, and Timely?