About this book
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions 10th Edition PDF by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, and Cindy Corey is offered here as a PDF eBook. The tenth edition is a practical ethics text designed to help counseling and helping-profession students develop their own reasoned approach to professional ethical decision-making. It examines informed consent, confidentiality, competence, boundaries, values, multicultural considerations, supervision, group work, couples and family work, community practice and technology-related issues. Rather than presenting professional codes as simple rules, the authors compare different perspectives and invite readers to analyze dilemmas, justify decisions and recognize tensions among legal, ethical and clinical responsibilities. The book is especially useful for counselor education and clinical supervision because it connects ethical principles with realistic situations likely to arise in professional practice.
Designed for counseling students, trainees, and helping professionals, this edition provides a structured resource for understanding how ethical principles and competing perspectives inform professional decisions.
This listing is for the 10th edition of Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions. Check the title, edition, authors/editors, and other product information before ordering if you need the book for a particular course, syllabus, examination, or professional reference.
Ethical Questions in Helping Relationships
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions examines the decisions that arise when professional responsibilities, client needs, and personal values intersect. The Coreys discuss the counselor’s professional identity, multicultural perspectives, client rights, confidentiality, boundaries, competence, and supervision. Chapters also consider ethical questions in couples and family therapy, group work, community practice, and social justice. The tenth edition presents differing views and encourages readers to develop a reasoned position within professional ethical frameworks. Its approach is especially relevant to questions that require interpretation and judgment, where a code identifies the responsibility but further discussion is needed to understand its application.
Professional Responsibilities and Practice Settings
The 10th edition covers the following areas:
- Values and professional identity: Examining the helper’s personal and professional positions.
- Diversity and multicultural perspectives: Considering cultural context in ethical judgment.
- Client rights and confidentiality: Responsibilities concerning information and the helping relationship.
- Boundaries and multiple relationships: Evaluating overlapping roles and professional limits.
- Competence and supervision: Training responsibilities and ethical oversight.
- Couples, family, and group work: Ethical issues in different treatment formats.
- Community and social justice: Responsibilities extending beyond individual practice.
Developing a Reasoned Ethical Position
This text is useful for readers learning to explain the reasoning behind a professional decision. Ethical questions can involve several legitimate concerns at once, and identifying a rule is only part of the task. The presentation of different viewpoints helps readers examine assumptions, consequences, and responsibilities before settling on a position. Students can relate confidentiality or boundaries to specific helping contexts, while supervisors can use the topics to discuss competence and accountability. Coverage of family, group, and community settings also shows how the people involved affect the ethical question. The book supports reflective professional education where a decision must be justified clearly and thoughtfully.
Who uses this book
- Counseling Students
- Clinical Mental Health Counseling Students
- Marriage and Family Therapy Students
- Social Work and Helping-Profession Trainees
- Practicing Counselors
- Clinical Supervisors
- Students Learning Professional Ethics and Boundaries
- Counselor Educators
- Helping Professionals Reviewing Ethical Decision-Making
Also suitable for other supervised helping professionals who need a practical framework for analyzing confidentiality, competence, boundaries, values and other ethical responsibilities.
Key Topics Covered
- Professional ethics
- Counselor identity
- Personal values in counseling
- Multicultural ethical perspectives
- Client rights
- Confidentiality
- Multiple relationships
- Professional boundaries
- Competence and training
- Ethical supervision
- Couples and family therapy ethics
- Group work ethics
- Community practice
- Social justice
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