PSY343H5 Lecture 2: Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy
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Code of ethics: educate counseling clinicians about the responsibilities of the profession, provide a basis for accountability, protect clients from unethical practices. Aspirational ethics: focuses on doing what"s in the best interest of the clients. Involves a level of ethical functioning at a minimum level of professional practice. It is best to function at the aspirational level because you must certainly consider the rules and the codes of conduct, but you also have to understand why the code is written as such. It is written as such to make sure your actions are what is best for your client. Positive ethics: an approach taken by practitioners who want to do their best for their clients rather than simply meeting the minimum standards (staying out of trouble, each college has their own code. College of psychologists of ontario (cpo) versus college of registered. Psychotherapists of ontario (crpo: these professional codes of ethics are there for a number of reasons:
