Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the profession and faith integration.
The publication helps students understand how to be and think like an ethically responsible Counselor who is also a Christian and sought an education, which included a Christian worldview.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice:
- is not focused on training Christian counselors. Rather, it is focused on training future Professional Counselors who want to understand how to be true to their faith without imposing values on clients.
- explains what it means to be a professional counselor, the roles and functions included in being a professional counselor, as well as the historical antecedents, current trends, and future outlook of the profession.
- describes how the counseling role is complementary and distinct from other professionals, what students uniquely bring to the counseling profession, and an understanding of how to integrate their identity as a Christian into the profession.
- is designed to address CACREP standards related to Professional Identity.
- Is divided into four main categories of foundational information about professional identity: Who We Are and What We Do, Spiritual and Ethical Cornerstones, Counseling in Practice, and Looking to the Future.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Chapter 6: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Professional Counselings
After reading this chapter, you will understand more about:
The professional ethics for counselors, including awareness of professional counseling associations
The ACA Code of Ethics (2014) and how it is used to guide professional practice and relationships with clients
Ethical decision-making models to assist students in navigating ethical dilemmas, values conflicts, and application of ethical and moral principles.
Differences between law and ethics and associated implications for counseling practice.
Counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence therapeutic practice and relationships.
The following CACREP standards are addressed in this chapter:
Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice:
Ethical standards of professional counseling organizations and credentialing bodies, and applications of ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling (CACREP, 2016, Standard 2.F.1.i.)
Strategies for personal and professional self-evaluation and implications for practice (CACREP, 2016, Standard 2.F.1.k.)
Counseling and Helping Relationships
Counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process (CACREP, 2016, Standard 2.F.5.f.)