Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations

An engaging text that covers ethical choices in a variety of counseling settings
Helping professionals assist people with complex and sometimes highly personal problems. This often means delving into many aspects of human behavior spanning a wide spectrum of relationships, organizational settings, and other interwoven circumstances and situations. Doing this in a professional manner requires an ethical awareness that is both well informed and effectively practiced.
Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional takes mental health professionals on a wide–ranging tour of ethics—covering both the theoretical as well as practical aspects of providing sound, ethical care. Coverage goes beyond a laundry–list approach to rules of conduct, and plumbs the philosophical roots embedded in today′s professional codes. Engaging case studies explore how ethical rules and principles apply in various real–world settings and specialties.
After covering ethical philosophies, codes, and standards, Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional further discusses:The helping relationship from beginning to endConfidentiality and trustBoundaries, roles, and limitsAssessment: peering through the right lensResearch, efficacy, and competence
In addition, this reader–friendly guide includes the specifics of counseling in settings such as:AgenciesPrivate practiceSchoolsRehabilitation counselingCouples and family counselingAddictions counselingTeaching, mentoring, and supervisionMulticultural settings and situations
A unique and comprehensive resource, Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional challenges students and professionals to consider both the process and the content of making ethical choices as a helping professional.

Spis treści:
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
About the Contributors .
Preface.
Section One: The Foundation.
One. Counseling Ethics and the Big Picture.
Two. Philosophical and Culture: Roots and Prisms.
Three. Ethics Codes, Codes of Conduct, Employer Policies, and the Law.
Four. Professional Identity Development: Values and Definitions.
Section Two: The Day to Day Challenges Common to All.
Five. The Helping Relationship: From Beginning to End.
Six. Confidentiality and Trust.
Seven. Boundaries, Roles, and Limits.
Eight. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing: Peering Through the Right Lenses.
Nine. Competence, Accountability, and Research: How We Know What We Should Know.
Section Three: Specific Specialties and Professional Identities.
Ten. Counseling in the Schools, (By John Sommers–Flanagan, Nancy Bodenhorn, and Rita Sommers–Flanagan).
Eleven. Psychotherapy, Mental Health Counseling, and Career Counseling.
Twelve. More Specialties: Families, Couples, Rehabilitation, Addictions, Pastoral.
Thirteen. Teaching, Mentoring, Supervision.
Epilogue.
References.
Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
About the DVD.

Nota biograficzna:
RITA SOMMERS–FLANAGAN, PhD, is Professor of Counseling and Director of Women′s Studies at the University of Montana.
JOHN SOMMERS–FLANAGAN, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana and a mental health consultant with Trapper Creek Job Corps. He also maintains a private practice.
Rita and John are the authors of two previous texts: Clinical Interviewing, now in its third edition, and Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques (both from Wiley).

Okładka tylna:
An engaging text that covers ethical choices in a variety of counseling settings
Helping professionals assist people with complex and sometimes highly personal problems. This often m eans delving into many aspects of human behavior spanning a wide spectrum of relationships, organizational settings, and other interwoven circumstances and situations. Doing this in a professional manner requires an ethical awareness that is both well informed and effectively practiced.
Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional takes mental health professionals on a wide–ranging tour of ethics—covering both the theoretical as well as practical aspects of providing sound, ethical care. Coverage goes beyond a laundry–list approach to rules of conduct, and plumbs the philosophical roots embedded in today′s professional codes. Engaging case studies explore how ethical rules and principles apply in various real–world settings and specialties.
After covering ethical philosophies, codes, and standards, Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional further discusses:The helping relationship from beginning to endConfidentiality and trustBoundaries, roles, and limitsAssessment: peering through the right lensResearch, efficacy, and competence
In addition, this reader–friendly guide includes the specifics of counseling in settings such as:AgenciesPrivate practiceSchoolsRehabilitation counselingCouples and family counselingAddictions counselingTeaching, mentoring, and supervisionMulticultural settings and situations
A unique and comprehensive resource, Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional challenges students and professionals to consider both the process and the content of making ethical choices as a helping professional.