Each step of the 8 Step Ethical Decision Making Model must be fulfilled, or else implications might occur causing things to go out of hand.
The first implication would be in Step 1 (Identify The Problem), and that would be the complexity of case. Client’s come in for therapy with different and complicated problems and sometimes counselors would face difficulty of understanding the problem. Hence, the counselor must be able to be patient while working with the client to find out more about the problems and this would take time, if the counselor is not patient then it would be hard to understand the problem the client is going through.
The second implication would be in Step 3 (Review The Relevant Ethic Codes), and that would be the competency
The first implication would be in Step 1 (Identify The Problem), and that would be the complexity of case. Client’s come in for therapy with different and complicated problems and sometimes counselors would face difficulty of understanding the problem. Hence, the counselor must be able to be patient while working with the client to find out more about the problems and this would take time, if the counselor is not patient then it would be hard to understand the problem the client is going through.
The second implication would be in Step 3 (Review The Relevant Ethic Codes), and that would be the competency