Preamble
Top 10 Changes
Ethical issues
terminology
What is ethics?
100
Fairness and equity in rehabilitation services.
What is justice?
100
This was added to each section of the 2017 code to clarify and add context.
What is an introductory statement?
100
The protection of clients’ private information
What is confidentiality?
100
Promoting the well-being of individuals, groups, and the profession within systems and organizaitons to seek fair treatment and removal of barriers or obstacles.
What is advocacy?
100
This Greek word means showing moral character.
What is ethos?
200
The value that supports alleviating distress and suffering.
What is beneficence?
200
This section was included in the preamble to ensure that rehabilitation counselors have a commitment to serving clients from diverse backgrounds.
What is cultural diversity?
200
The situation of a counselor who has different duties in different settings.
What is dual roles?
200
To provide expertise involving the application of professional knowledge and the use of scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge for the resolution of legal or administrative issues, proceedings, or decisions.
What is forensic rehabilitation?
200
Rehabilitation counselors must use this when faced with an ethical dilemma to demonstrate the process that they used to resolve it.
What is an ethical decision making model?
300
The underlying principle in consumer choice.
What is autonomy?
300
Regarding the counseling relationship, this enhanced standard was added to ensure that counselors seek training to ensure that they respect a client's viewpoint even when it differs from their own.
What is value imposition?
300
Doing the right thing….…hopefully it is also legal.
What is ethical?
300
A specific process of assessing an indivdiual in the context of his or her living, learning, or working environments in order to make develop goals and strategies.
What is evaluation?
300
Establishes principles that guide the ethical behavior of rehabilitation counselors.
What is the purpose of the CRCC code of ethics?
400
The guidelines direct rehabilitation counselors' behavior in specific situations.
What are Enforceable Standards?
400
Under resolving ethical issues, this section was added that requires counselors to notify CRCC if they are sanctioned by any other ethical body.
What is self-reporting?
400
Prohibits engaging in personal relationships with with current clients through social media.
What is personal virtual relationships?
400
Possessing a set of values and principles, and demonstrating behavior, attitude, knowledge, and skill that enable one to work effectively cross-culturally with the capacity to value diversity, conduct self-assessment, and manage the dynamics of difference.
What is cultural competence?
400
A situation in which a person is faced with a choice between 2 mutually exclusive courses of action in which either course is supported by ethical principles.
What is an ethical dilemma?
500
These inform ethical principles.
What are values?
500
An introductory statement was added under this section that outlines counselor requirements including non-discrimination, participation in professional associations, utilization of evidence-based practices, provision of pro-bono services, self-care, and advocating the hiring of CRCs.
What is professional responsibility?
500
A process of communication between rehabilitation counselor and clients that results in an authorization or decision by clients based upon an appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of an action.
What is informed consent?
500
A promise or contract to respect the privacy of clients by not disclosing anything revealed to rehabilitation counselors except under agreed-upon conditions.
What is confidentiality?
500
Role & relationships with clients, professional responsibility & competence, confidentiality & privacy, client welfare & autonomy, & organizational conflicts.
What are themes of current ethical dilemmas?