FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Services, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Positive Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

This chapter asks you to build your counseling sessions on professional ethics, multicultural sensitivity, and a strength-based wellness approach. Observe and follow professional standards, and practice ethically. Particularly important issues for beginning counsellors are competence, informed consent, con dentiality, power, and social justice: results: client trust and understanding of the counseling process will increase. Clients will feel empowered in a more egalitarian session. When you work toward social justice, you contribute to problem prevention in addition to session healing work. Our task, as counsellors and therapists, is to facilitate her growth within the broad context in which she lives. Part of effective counseling is helping clients see strengths and resources around them. Ethical codes promote empowerment for both counsellors and their clients. They aid the helping process by (a) teaching and promoting the basics of ethical and appropriate practice, (b) protecting clients by providing accountability, and (c) serving as a mechanism to improve practice.