Chapter 1: Intro to Professional Ethics

A counseling code of ethics is generally created by a

• counselor based on their clinical experience

• counseling agency or school district

• state or county government

• mental health professional organization

Codes of ethics can

• offer resources to help you understand the issues underlying the ethical decisions in your profession

• provide a blueprint to deal with all of the ethical challenges you will encounter

• serve as "cookbooks" for responsible professional behavior, with "recipes" for ethical decisions

• be a handy shortcut in place of an active, deliberative, and creative ethical decision-making approach

The primary purpose of all codes of ethics is

• to prevent legal action against a counselor

• to safeguard the welfare of clients

• to provide job security to university ethics professors

• to harmonize the needs of professionals with those of their clients

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

standards that govern the conduct of a profession's members

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

rules that govern the affairs of people within a community, state, or country

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

define the minimum standards society will tolerate

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

essential item if marooned alone on desert island or hungry any time of day or night (Bennie, 2022)

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

generally overrules the other(s)

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Answer explanation

"As ethical mental health practitioners, however, we can advocate for social justice both with and on behalf of our clients and the communities we serve." (Corey, p. 7).

Law, ethics, or peanut butter?

Ideally, a counselor brings a concern-based attitude more than a fear-based one to this.

• law

• ethics

• peanut butter

Answer explanation

"Counselors need to release the fear of punishment and open themselves to authentic mutuality so that 'ethics becomes relational and alive and fully integrated into each moment of the clinical encounter.'" (Birrell & Bruns, 2016, p. 396)

beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living

• ethics

• values

• morality

• community standards (or mores)

• professionalism