Importance Of Ethics In Counseling

Professionalism, Ethics and Law Initial Apprehensions
When I realized that I would be taking a course focusing on ethics and legal issues in counseling, I must admit that I was a bit intimidated. Weeks before the course started, I mentioned to my husband that I may need his encouragement and help since he is an attorney. The only prior knowledge that I had on law and ethics was through overhearing my husband talk about legal issues and ethics related to current events that we see on the nightly news. My husband enjoys debating with his friends about recent events through the context of law and ethics, while I always felt these types of conversations were irrelevant to me. Interpreting law in certain contexts, as well as navigating ethical issues has always seemed overwhelming to me, especially with all the laws, standards, and codes that have been created at the school district, local, state, and federal levels. In fact, I always thought that professional ethics required one to know all …show more content…
The article discusses important issues such as ethics and other questions that have arisen through the use of technology over the past years. The article first helps the reader to understand how important communication, both verbal and nonverbal, is in the helping professions, and particularly school counseling. It is common for counselors to use computers to communicate through “cyber” mediums, such as the internet, school-wide databases, email and such. Naturally, there is an increasing concern about how new technology is transforming the school counseling work, whether to its betterment or