ACA Ethical Standards Casebook

The seventh edition of this top-selling text provides a comprehensive resource for understanding the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics and applying its principles to daily practice. Each individual standard of the Code is presented with an explanatory case vignette, and a Study and Discussion Guide is provided at the beginning of each major section of the Code to stimulate thought and discussion. Common ethical concerns, with instructive case studies, are then explored in individual chapters. Topics addressed include client rights and informed consent, social justice and counseling across cultures, confidentiality, counselor competence, working with minor clients, managing boundaries, client harm to self or others, counselor training and supervision, research and publication, and the intersection of ethics and law. Chapters new to this edition examine managing value conflicts and the issues surrounding new technology, social media, and online counseling. The Casebook also contains an Inventory of Attitudes and Beliefs About Ethical Issues to assist counselors in developing a personal ethical stance.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments About the Authors About the Contributors Making the Best Use of the Casebook Part I: Introduction Evolution of the ACA Ethical Standards and the Casebook by Perry C. Francis Foundations of Codes of Ethics Developing a Personal Ethical Stance The Ethical Decision-Making Process A Review of Ethical Decision-Making Models by Melissa D. Deroche, Emeline Eckart, Earniesha Lott, Candace N. Park, and Latrina Raddler Enforcement of the ACA Code of Ethics An Inventory of Your Attitudes and Beliefs About Ethical Issues Part II. ACA Code of Ethics With Illustrative Vignettes Section A: The Counseling Relationship Section B: Confidentiality and Privacy Section C: Professional Responsibility Section D: Relationships With Other Professionals Section E: Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation Section F: Supervision, Training, and Teaching Section G: Research and Publication Section H: Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media Section I: Resolving Ethical Issues Part III. Issues and Case Studies Chapter 1: Client Rights and Informed Consent - Gerald Corey and Barbara Herlihy Case Study 1: Keep Kendra’s Secret, or Not? - Kelly L. Wester Case Study 2: A Minor (?) Client - J. Scott Young Chapter 2: Social Justice and Counseling Across Cultures - Courtland C. Lee Case Study 3: She’s Done This Before - William B. McKibben and Jodi L. Bartley Case Study 4: Working With an Immigrant Family - Laura M. Gonzalez Chapter 3: Confidentiality - Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey Case Study 5: The Slap—How to Best Help Hope - Chris C. Lauer Case Study 6: A Supervisee Feels Betrayed - Adria Shipp Chapter 4: Competence - Gerald Corey and Barbara Herlihy Case Study 7: I Feel Exhausted - Isabel A. Thompson Case Study 8: Couples Counseling Gone Wrong - Jennifer M. Johnson Chapter 5: Managing Value Conflicts - Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey Case Study 9: I’m Stuck - Anneliese A. Singh Case Study 10: A Parental Dilemma: Hastening the Death of a Child - Karen Swanson Taheri Chapter 6: Counseling Minor Clients - Mark Salo Case Study 11: A Legal Guardian Presses for Confidential Information - Amanda Crawford Case Study 12: A Pregnant Teenager: A School Counselor’s Quandary - Danielle Shareef Chapter 7: Managing Boundaries - Gerald Corey and Barbara Herlihy Case Study 13: Disputing Unhealthy Beliefs or Imposing Values? - Craig S. Cashwell and Tammy H. Cashwell Case Study 14: If You Will Excuse Me - Matthew L. Lyons Chapter 8: Working With Clients Who May Harm Themselves - James L. Werth Jr. and Jennifer Stroup Case Study 15: Suicide or a Well-Reasoned End-of-Life Decision? - James L. Werth Jr. and Jennifer Stroup Case Study 16: A Suicidal Teenager - Robert E. Wubbolding Chapter 9: Technology, Social Media, and Online Counseling - Martin Jencius Case Study 17: Making Social Media Decisions for an Agency - Martin Jencius Case Study 18: A Client’s Friend Request - Martin Jencius Chapter 10: Counselor Education and Supervision - Barbara Herlihy and Gerald Corey Case Study 19: Poor Supervision or Impaired Student? - Edward Neukrug and Gina B. Polychronopoulos Case Study 20: An Imposition of Values? - Alwin E. Wagener Chapter 11: Research and Publication - Richard E. Watts Case Study 21: Expert Review of a Research Study - Richard E. Watts Case Study 22: A Question of Authorship - Richard E. Watts Chapter 12: The Intersection of Ethics and Law - Burt Bertram and Anne Marie “Nancy” Wheeler Case Study 23: A Student Commits Suicide - Burt Bertram and Anne Marie “Nancy” Wheeler Case Study 24: Good Intentions Gone Awry - Burt Bertram and Anne Marie “Nancy” Wheeler Highlights of Ethical Practice References

About the Author :
Barbara Herlihy, PhD, LPC, LPC-S, is University Research Professor in the Counselor Education graduate program at the University of New Orleans. She has served on the ACA Ethics Committee as chair (1987–89) and as a member (1986–87, 1993–94) and as a member of the taskforces to revise the 1995 and 2005 ACA codes of ethics. Dr. Herlihy is the coauthor of several books on ethical issues in counseling: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling (2014) with Ted Remley; the ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, 5th and 6th editions (1996, 2006), Dual Relationships in Counseling (1992), and Boundary Issues in Counseling: Multiple Roles and Relationships, 2nd and 3rd editions (2006, 2015), all with Gerald Corey; and the ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, 4th edition (1990) with Larry Golden. She is also the author or coauthor of more than 65 journal articles and book chapters on ethics, social justice and multicultural counseling, feminist therapy, and other topics. She is the recipient of the Southern Association for Counselor  Education and Supervision Courtland Lee Social Justice Award and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Distinguished Mentor Award. She is a frequent presenter of seminars and workshops on ethics across the United States and internationally, most recently in Malta, Venezuela, and Mexico. Gerald Corey, EdD, ABPP, NCC, is a Professor Emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology; a licensed counseling psychologist; and a Fellow of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), and the American Psychological Association, in both Division 17 and Division 49. He is the recipient (with Marianne Schneider Corey) of both the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mental Health Counselors Association in 2011 and the ASGW’s Eminent Career Award in 2001.  Dr. Corey has authored or coauthored 15 textbooks in counseling that are currently in print, has made five educational DVD programs on various aspects of counseling, and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters. Some of his coauthored books include Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (2015) with Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey, and Patrick Callanan; Becoming a Helper (2016) and I Never Knew I Had a Choice (2014), both with Marianne Schneider Corey; and Groups: Process and Practice (2014) with Marianne Schneider Corey and Cindy Corey. Some of his other books include Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy (2013) and Theory and Practice of Group Counseling (2016). In the past 40 years the Coreys 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.