Difference 28th March 2013 In this assignment I will explore how diversity‚ equality and anti-discrimination practices need to be addressed in the counselling room. It will also explore how the BACP ethical framework helps inform and guide our counselling work and the legal requirements of being a counsellor. Clients come to counselling from a wide range of diverse backgrounds. Pederson (1994) sites Diversity as a broad definition of multicultural counselling which covers “ethnographic variables such
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everyday home and work settings. These individuals may not call themselves counsellors or indeed have any formal counselling skills training. It is this training that sets apart therapeutic counselling from other forms of helping communication. Sanders‚ (2007‚ p15) defines counselling skills as “interpersonal communication skills derived from the study of therapeutic change in human beings”. Crucially the counsellor is bound by a framework of ethics and professional responsibilities derived
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practitioner and client. Counselling can be for a short or long period but will hopefully have an effective change on ones wellbeing. Every practitioner will have their own philosophical approach to counselling. By being detached from the client the counsellor is able to be more thoughtful in dealing with the issue and challenges. This is a good example for not counselling a loved one or friend. My personal philosophical approach to counselling is for a client to come to counselling and be existing in
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counselling skills and being a counsellor. From my own research I think the distinction revolves around the fact that a counsellor has formal qualifications and is bound by a code of ethics and professional practice – what the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) calls the ethical framework. In contrast‚ anyone can use counselling skills in a non-counselling situation – be that as a nurse‚ line manager‚ social worker‚ neighbour or friend. The BACP states that counselling skills
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Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) identifies that‚ ‘there is evidence that the relationship between the counsellor and the client is more important than the approach the therapist uses. BACP (2011). This does not presuppose that counsellors working within differing paradigms practice in an entirely different way to their counterparts or that those working within each approach operate in exactly the same way either. Indeed‚ it is within the relationship between the counsellor and the client that many
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The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) have a Code of Ethics called the ‘Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy’. The framework was first published in 2002 and was reviewed in 2013. Within the Code of Ethics it states what the ethical principles and personal moral qualities are (in this piece of work I shall be explaining 4 of them). The ethical principles that I found in the BACPs Ethical Framework were (as follows): Being trustworthy Autonomy
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INTRODUCTION ‘Ethics’ is defined as: ‘moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity’; they tend to be values imposed by one’s self or by a group on its members. ‘Morals’ is defined as: ‘standards of behavior; principles of right and wrong’; they tend to be imposed by society. ‘Principle’ is defined as: A rule or belief governing one’s personal behavior ‘Values’ is defined as: principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgement of what is important in
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Nichola Hanson-Jones The Importance of Insurance in Counselling There are two main reasons that as a counsellor you will need to be insured and they are : first of all for the safety of the client both Physical and Psychologically. And secondly to protect you the counsellor from costly expense. You may think that there is little to no risk involved in counselling‚ and while for most part you would be right there are of course instances where things go wrong. It is for these times
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the supervisee. The supervisor will have gained much more expertise and is trained in the field of therapy and supervision to provide a safe and reflective space within which the supervisee can focus on their clients and develop themselves as a counsellor. In the supervisory space‚ characterised by involvement and attuned support‚ the clients’ welfare is focal. Through careful‚ honest reflection upon the relational process with the client‚ therapeutic stuck points can be explored and freed up
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Contents Page 3 2.1 4 2.1 contd. 5 2.2 6 2.3 7 3.1 8 3.2 9 3.3 10 Bibliography 2.1 Explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health & social care. (400 words) The purpose of this report is to explain how current ethical guidelines for counsellors and supervisor practitioners influence counselling interactions in health and social care. “Everyone who works within the health and social care sector
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