Ethical Issues In Family And Group Work

Objectives:

1. Describe the methods used to ensure family and group members understanding of confidentiality as well as how breaches of confidentiality will be managed.

2. Describe the specific ethical issues inherent in group counseling and identify ways that they can be managed by a professional counselor.

3. Describe the strategies for interfacing with the legal system regarding court-referred clients.

4. Synthesize ethical responsibilities regarding technology’s impact on the counseling profession in a clinical counseling scenario.

5. Assess personal values and gender/cultural issues that may create ethical dilemmas in couples/family counseling.

6. Present ethical ways that a counselor can manage limited resources, respond to discrimination, advocate for mental health clients and the counseling profession, and promote community change.