Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

278 Pages·2000·1.1 MB·English

by  Tim Bond

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S E
TANDARDS AND THICS FOR
C A
OUNSELLING IN CTION
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Series Editor:Windy Dryden
SAGE’s bestselling Counselling in Actionseries has gone from strength
tostrength,with worldwide sales of well over 250,000 copies.Since the
firstvolumes in the series were published,the number of counselling
courseshas grown enormously,resulting in continuing demand for
theseintroductory texts.
In response,and to keep pace with current developments in theory and
practice,SAGE are pleased to announce that new and expanded editions of
six of the volumes have now been published.
These short,practical books– developed especially for counsellors and
students of counselling– will continue to provide clear and explicit
guidelines for counselling practice.
New editions in the series include:
Feminist Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Jocelyn Chaplin
Gestalt Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Petru¯ska Clarkson
Transcultural Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Patricia d’Ardenne and Aruna Mahtani
Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Windy Dryden
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Michael Jacobs
Person-Centred Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne
Personal Construct Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Fay Fransella and Peggy Dalton
Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Diana Whitmore
Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Ian Stewart
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S E
TANDARDS AND THICS
C
FOR OUNSELLING
Second Edition
Tim Bond
SAGE Publications
London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi
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© Tim Bond 2000
First edition published as Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action1993
Reprinted 1994,1995,1997,1998,1999
This edition first published 2000
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0–7619–6308–1
ISBN 0–7619–6309–X (pbk)
Library ofCongress catalog card number 00–130567
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To Norman and Jean Bond
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C
ONTENTS
Foreword by Professor Douglas Hooper ix
Acknowledgements xi
PART I THE BACKGROUND 1
1 INTRODUCTION 3
2 WHATISCOUNSELLING? 17
3 SOURCESOFCOUNSELLINGETHICS 38
4 FRAMEWORKFORCOUNSELLINGETHICSANDSTANDARDS 53
PART II RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CLIENT 63
5 SAFETY,NEGLIGENCEANDINSURANCE 65
6 RESPECTFORCLIENTAUTONOMY 75
7 SUICIDEANDREFUSALTOACCEPTLIFE-SAVINGTREATMENT 96
8 COUNSELLORCOMPETENCE 114
9 AVOIDINGTHEEXPLOITATIONOFCLIENTS 127
10 CONFIDENTIALITY 150
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CONTENTS
PART III THE COUNSELLOR AND OTHERS 167
11 RESPONSIBILITYTOONESELF,COLLEAGUESAND
THECOMMUNITY 169
12 COUNSELLING-SUPERVISION 181
13 RECORD-KEEPING 193
14 MONITORINGCOUNSELLING 209
PART IV THE WHOLE PICTURE 221
15 ETHICALPROBLEM-SOLVING 223
16 IMPLICATIONSFORPRACTICE 237
Appendix:Useful names and addresses 244
Bibliography 247
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F
OREWORD
by Professor Douglas Hooper
When I wrote the foreword for the first edition of this book I realized that
Tim Bond was breaking entirely new ground in discussing these important
issues in this extended form for the first time.What neither of us knew was
how widely sold and how widely quoted his writing would be.
The year 1993 was at the beginning of a surge of interest in these areas.
This was due both to the increasing professional concerns,and also to the
parallel rise in the complaints (often in the media) about counselling and
psychotherapy.At times the articulated angry complaints have seemed to
threaten the very existence of these helping disciplines.Yet the clear and
unambiguous statement of the standards which every client should expect
from their counsellor or therapist is the surest defence against both poor
practice andscurrilous allegations.
Tim Bond has clearly recognized these increased pressures in this revi-
sion of his material and deals not only with the emergence of new issues
(such as the debate on ‘false’or ‘recovered’memory in sexual abuse) but
also with the rise of a variety of codes which have been confirmed by a
number of the professional bodies involved.These often draw heavily on
the pioneering work done by the British Association for Counselling and
the present author,and he has helpfully given the reader the comparisons
and comment which should make revision of the codes of practice more
coherent.
Sometimes the professionals forget that in discussing the minutiae of
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