Ethics in Counseling
Maintaining appropriate _________ is an essential part of developing a trusting relationship with a client.
What are Boundaries?
Pushing for adequate services for all in your role as a counselor.
What is Advocacy?
Being sincere, real, and allowing your humanness and uniqueness to be seen.
What is Genuineness/Authenticity?
Counselor communicating through body language such as leaning forward, sitting in an open posture, and making eye contact.
What is Attending /Attending Behavior?
This intake assessment tool asks clients to scale different areas of their Life from 1-10.
What is the Life Map?
These provide a brief explanation of what can and should be expected in interactions between professionals and clients.
What are Codes of Ethics?
The activities, knowledge, and skills identified by licensing boards and professional organizations related to your discipline.
What is Scope of Practice?
Affirming and accepting clients for EXACTLY who they are -- without condoning their harmful behaviors.
What is "unconditional positive regard” (respect)?
Involves hearing and making an effort to understand the meaning of what the person is saying BEYOND attending.
What is Active Listening?
This intake tool asks clients to prioritize their unique identities and share which ones are important to them.
What is the Cultural Identity Wheel?
Judgments about how much and when to use the tool of ___-________ involves how much information about yourself you should share.
What is Self-Disclosure?
Developing your role and knowledge of scope of practice in your profession.
What is Professional Identity?
Having the willingness and flexibility to put yourself in the other person’s reality to understand their assumptions, beliefs, and/or worldview.
What is Empathy?
Includes client facial expressions, breathing patterns, hand/body gestures, movements and posture.
What is Nonverbal Behavior?
A type of question that asks "What Where When or How" to draw out a client's story.
What are Open Questions?
Full disclosure -- and agreement of-- the purposes, goals, techniques, and procedures that will be used in counseling a client.
What is Informed Consent?
Meeting with experts (often supervisors) who can help you solve a particular dilemma or problem.
What is Consultation (Supervision)?
Authenticity (Congruence), Empathy, and Unconditional Positive Regard.
What are Rogers' 3 "Core Conditions"?
(of Person-Centered Therapy)
Noticing all of the behaviors that a client engages in while communicating.
What is Observing/Observational Skills?
What are Closed Questions?
Counselors have a ______ ________ to follow the ethical standards for a profession, such as confidentiality and discretion.
What is a "moral obligation"?
This statement is shared at the beginning of a 1st counseling session and structures your role, session timing & logistics, informed consent, and confidentiality and exceptions.
What is a Structure Statement?
These types of questions are problematic as they sometimes imply judgment and can invite client defensiveness.
What are "Why" Questions?
Observing, Attending and Listening
What are the CORE interpersonal skills for helping?
A powerful tool in counseling that allows time for clients to make connections BUT often makes some uncomfortable.
What is Silence?