Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Counseling 4th Edition

Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling 4th Edition by Theodore P. Remley Jr. and Barbara P. Herlihy delves into the newest federal courtroom circumstances that pose the most ethical and authorized issues in counseling at the moment, resembling a termination from employment by refusing to counsel a homosexual client. Positive changes within the discipline and the rise in employment and reimbursement services, such because the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, and others are properly discussed.

Authors have maintained the qualities that have set this text aside from others in the field, nevertheless, made the necessary updates and modifications applicable for the current time. Every professional subject in counseling is approached from each an ethical and a legal perspective, providing readers a whole, integrated exploration of all facets, and the troublesome issues are addressed in an easy manner. Practical, realistic advice is proffered via vignettes that showcase typical situations and dilemmas confronted by practicing counselors.

Extra revisions include: current ideas of multiculturalism in practice, forms of advocacy and social justice in the discipline, new technologies in practice, plagiarism in counselor education schemes and in scholarship, setting and sustaining boundaries with clients, thoughts and perspectives on making professional ethical choices, new insights on professional identity, and additional case studies throughout this enlightening revised text for the professional counselor in training.

Masking moral and authorized points concerned in working with various purchasers and other counseling professionals, this book discusses diversity in tradition, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. The chapter additionally examines what it means to be multiculturally competent and the helper's position as a shopper advocate. It ensures students are acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their clients in our ever increasingly diverse society.

Chapter on technology and on healthcare plans appears at the ethical and authorized features of issues like electronic storage of consumer data and speaking with shoppers and others through the phone, answering machines, and email. The chapter also examines the broad vary of issues that helpers must bear in mind when working with shopper health care plans. It makes students aware of their ethical duties and authorized liabilities when the use expertise as a tool in conducting their practice and once they work with insurance plans.

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