Ethical guidelines are important for all practitioners of the healing art, because there is the potential for a helping professional to harm a client through inappropriate advice, humiliation, emotionally arousing techniques, i.e., confrontation, and communicating subtle messages of contempt because of not understanding our clients culture, religion, beliefs, or family (Young, 2013, p. 16). Upon reflecting on the ethical guidelines that all helping professionals pledge to follow, primum non nocere, a Latin phrase meaning first do no harm strongly resonates with me. The commitment of a helping professional primarily to do no harm inevitably includes adhering to the following ethical standards:
1) Informing the course instructor or our supervisor at once if a client or fellow student suggests suicide or intent to harm others.
2) Only practice the therapeutic …show more content…
Helping professionals are primarily students, seeking first an understanding of each client as well as the multitude of therapeutic modalities before inserting ourselves into the scenario. Therapists prematurely offering advice, implementing a novel modus operandi, or imposing his or her values on clients will inevitably do harm.
Professionally, I must make it a priority to continue advancing my knowledge of new therapeutic methods while still understanding the limitations of my current scope of technical skills, i.e., the basic building blocks of therapy. It would be irresponsible and unethical for me to implement an approach that I have become newly aware of through reading or professional training without supervision. A helping professional must constantly practice the basic building blocks of therapy until it becomes second nature and only then can he or she begin implementing more progressive
1) Informing the course instructor or our supervisor at once if a client or fellow student suggests suicide or intent to harm others.
2) Only practice the therapeutic …show more content…
Helping professionals are primarily students, seeking first an understanding of each client as well as the multitude of therapeutic modalities before inserting ourselves into the scenario. Therapists prematurely offering advice, implementing a novel modus operandi, or imposing his or her values on clients will inevitably do harm.
Professionally, I must make it a priority to continue advancing my knowledge of new therapeutic methods while still understanding the limitations of my current scope of technical skills, i.e., the basic building blocks of therapy. It would be irresponsible and unethical for me to implement an approach that I have become newly aware of through reading or professional training without supervision. A helping professional must constantly practice the basic building blocks of therapy until it becomes second nature and only then can he or she begin implementing more progressive