Ethics can be explained as set of moral principles or behaviour of conduct for oneself or a group. It will affect how a person making decisions & choices. For example, the concept of “right” and “wrong” brought the need for a formal approach to social behaviour an effort to create unity and organization in a society. The course of actions in counselling usually determined by ethics conduct (Forester-Miller & Davis 2016). . However, for a counsellor, ethical dilemmas are inevitable. As counselling is not a regulated profession in many countries, hence the application of ethical conduct is a scheme of guiding, so the counsellor operates for the benefits of their clients but not themselves. There are different ethical codes of standards developed
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It involves loyalty and faithfulness of counsellors towards their clients. They have to be aware of their responsibility to community, being honest and reliability with them. Counsellor can only build and grow the relationship with clients when they uphold their word and promises, because trust is an essential component in the development of helping relationship. If clients find out any untruth information, they will feel like being betrayed, and started to hold back some personal information, which cause the counselling work could not be continuing well (Glosoff, 2002).
Case study
Vincent, a high school student visits counselling centre and share with the counsellor about his family issues. He mentioned about his father lost his job, and also how his parents fight at home everyday. This problem has affected him and bring him stress which actually caused him could not focus on his study and then fail his exams. He was seeking for a listener who will keep this secret, as he does not wish other people know about his current situation.
Few days later, his classmates came to the counsellor and ask whether Vincent shared about any of his problems as they concern about him. However, the counsellor did not tell them regarding his problem, as this is the promise between them, not to share about this to anyone. The counsellor create the trust and it will help the counselling work going more …show more content…
Counsellor tells her the benefits and burden of the treatment, by taking the treatment, she could have the chance to live for another 5 years, however there would be a lot of things she could not do, a lot of food she could not enjoy. She refuse to accept the treatment. She has the right to decide what shall be done with her own body. As she still able to express her preference, even though it might not seem like a best choice for the doctor, but as long as she can still speak for herself, her refusal should be
It involves loyalty and faithfulness of counsellors towards their clients. They have to be aware of their responsibility to community, being honest and reliability with them. Counsellor can only build and grow the relationship with clients when they uphold their word and promises, because trust is an essential component in the development of helping relationship. If clients find out any untruth information, they will feel like being betrayed, and started to hold back some personal information, which cause the counselling work could not be continuing well (Glosoff, 2002).
Case study
Vincent, a high school student visits counselling centre and share with the counsellor about his family issues. He mentioned about his father lost his job, and also how his parents fight at home everyday. This problem has affected him and bring him stress which actually caused him could not focus on his study and then fail his exams. He was seeking for a listener who will keep this secret, as he does not wish other people know about his current situation.
Few days later, his classmates came to the counsellor and ask whether Vincent shared about any of his problems as they concern about him. However, the counsellor did not tell them regarding his problem, as this is the promise between them, not to share about this to anyone. The counsellor create the trust and it will help the counselling work going more …show more content…
Counsellor tells her the benefits and burden of the treatment, by taking the treatment, she could have the chance to live for another 5 years, however there would be a lot of things she could not do, a lot of food she could not enjoy. She refuse to accept the treatment. She has the right to decide what shall be done with her own body. As she still able to express her preference, even though it might not seem like a best choice for the doctor, but as long as she can still speak for herself, her refusal should be