Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical best-selling text helps readers learn how to deal with and apply ethical standards. It provides readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. The authors raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and present many opportunities for users to refine their own thinking and actively develop their own position. Readers explore such questions as: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? What considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations?

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Professional Ethics. 2. The Counselor as a Person and as a Professional. 3. Values and the Helping Relationship. 4. Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity Issues. 5. Client Rights and Counselor Responsibilities. 6. Confidentiality: Ethical and Legal Issues. 7. Managing Boundaries and Multiple Relationships. 8. Professional Competence and Training. 9. Issues in Supervision. 10. Issues in Theory and Practice 11. Ethical Issues in Couples and Family Therapy. 12. Ethical Issues in Group Work. 13. Community and Social Justice Perspectives.

About the Author :
Cindy Corey is a California-licensed psychologist in private practice in San Diego and on the faculty at San Diego State University Community-Based Block Program. She received her doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles. Gerald Corey is Professor Emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton. He received his doctorate in counseling from the University of Southern California. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed psychologist; and a National Certified Counselor. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 17, Counseling Psychology; and Division 49, Group Psychotherapy); a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Both Jerry and Marianne Corey received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011, and both also received the Eminent Career Award from ASGW in 2001. Dr. Corey was given the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from California State University at Fullerton in 1991. He regularly teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in group counseling and ethics in counseling. He is the author or coauthor of 15 textbooks in counseling currently in print, along with more than 60 journal articles and book chapters. In the past 40 years Jerry and Marianne Corey have conducted group counseling training workshops for mental health professionals at many universities in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany, Belgium, Scotland, England, and Ireland. Marianne Schneider Corey, a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, is a National Certified Counselor and a fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. She has been actively involved in providing training and supervision workshops in group process for human-services students and professionals. She also facilitates self-exploration groups for graduate students and continues to conduct training workshops in group counseling with her husband, Dr. Gerald Corey, in various countries. In 2001, the two received the Eminent Career Award for distinguished and major contributions to the field of group work by the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Patrick Callanan is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Santa Ana, California, and a National Certified Counselor. In his private practice he works with individuals, couples, and families. Patrick is on the part-time faculty of the Human Services Program at California State University at Fullerton, where he regularly teaches the internship course. He also offers his time each year to the university to assist in training and supervising group leaders, and co-teaches an undergraduate course in ethical and professional issues.

Review :
1. Introduction to Professional Ethics. 2. The Counselor as a Person and as a Professional. 3. Values and the Helping Relationship. 4. Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity Issues. 5. Client Rights and Counselor Responsibilities. 6. Confidentiality: Ethical and Legal Issues. 7. Managing Boundaries and Multiple Relationships. 8. Professional Competence and Training. 9. Issues in Supervision. 10. Issues in Theory and Practice 11. Ethical Issues in Couples and Family Therapy. 12. Ethical Issues in Group Work. 13. Community and Social Justice Perspectives.