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7 pages in length. Seeking therapy is a difficult enough decision when all the elements of professionalism, competency and ethics are perfectly aligned; however, there are those counselors within the industry who fail to uphold the fundamental components of counseling and choose instead to breach the ethical code that guides their standards of practice. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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there are those counselors within the industry who fail to uphold the fundamental components of counseling and choose instead to breach the ethical code that guides their standards of practice.
A reasonable person would think that upholding the established ethics of professional counseling would be as commonplace as knowing the sun will rise every morning and set every night.
It does not seem feasible for there to be those who practice within the industry yet do not abide by the code of ethics while cloaked in their counselor
persona, a breach that causes betrayal of confidentiality, compromising the patient/counselor relationship and casts a negative mark against the industry as a whole. II. UPHOLDING THE CODE The very
nature of ethics is to abide by a written - or sometimes understood - code of conduct that speaks to moral duty and obligation. Perhaps nowhere is this guiding
principle more important than in the counseling profession of today. According to Walden et al (2003) - authors of "The Evolution of Ethics: Personal Perspectives of ACA Ethnics Committee
Chairs" in the American Counseling Associations Journal of Counseling & Development - the history, development and ongoing pursuit of the ACAs Ethics Committee "mirrors, in many ways, the development and
maturation of the counseling profession" (p. 106). The American Counseling Association (ACA) is responsible for creating and enforcing ethical standards that relate to
professional competency and counseling programs. The ACA is assisted by seventeen divisions, such as the National Career Development Association (NCDA), in its ongoing quest to maintain the highest level
of professional ethics. Another group that helps fortify the ethical constitution of the counseling industry is the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc., which is responsible for advocating quality
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