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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 9th Edition
by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey, and Patrick Callanan with Michelle Muratori, Johns Hopkins University © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Professional Competence and Training
Chapter 8 Professional Competence and Training © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Perspectives on Competence
Professional codes of ethics on competence have common themes. Counselors practice only within the boundaries of competence, based on: Education Training Supervised experience State and national professional credentials Appropriate professional experience © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Assessment of Competence
Assessment approaches are most effective when they integrate both formative and summative evaluations. Formative assessment is a developmentally informed process that provides useful feedback during one’s training and throughout one’s professional career. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Assessment of Competence
Summative assessment is an end point evaluation typically completed at the end of a professional program or when applying for licensure status. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Developing or Upgrading Skills
Work with colleagues or professionals who have more experience. Seek consultation before moving outside areas in which you have received education and training. Learn new skills by attending conferences, reading professional articles, taking courses, and participating in workshops. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Making Referrals You may need to refer a client if the resources are limited in the setting in which you work. You may also need to refer a client if the boundaries of your professional role restrict you from delivering the services your client needs. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Making Referrals Referring a client because of a conflict with your value system is not an ethically acceptable reason for a referral. Consider a referral as a final intervention after you have exhausted other interventions including consulting. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Ethical Issues in Training Therapists
Training programs have an ethical responsibility to: Establish clear selection criteria Provide exposure to major contemporary counseling theories Teach students strengths and limitations of theories Combine academic and personal learning © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Ethical Issues in Training Therapists
Training programs have an ethical responsibility to: Screen candidates to protect public from incompetent practitioners Teach a range of skills to work with diverse clients Provide training in ethics © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Evaluating Character and Psychological Fitness of Trainees
Interpersonal behaviors of trainees have a direct bearing on their clinical effectiveness, so these factors must be taken into consideration in the evaluation process. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Evaluating Character and Psychological Fitness of Trainees
The honesty and integrity with which a person deals with others Psychological fitness: The emotional or mental stability necessary to practice safely and effectively Evidenced by the presence of personality adjustment, absence of psychological disorder, and appropriate use of substances © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence
The academic faculty in a professional program generally has a gatekeeper’s role, protecting consumers by identifying and intervening with graduate students who exhibit problematic behaviors. The gatekeeper role is addressed in the ethics codes of most professional organizations. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence
When a student has good grades but demonstrates substandard interpersonal behavior, indicating serious unresolved conflicts, action needs to be taken. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence
Well-designed gatekeeping procedures appear to improve the effectiveness with which deficient students are identified and prevented from progressing unremediated into the counseling profession. Dismissal from a program is a measure of last resort. © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Certification and Licensure
Voluntary attempt by a group to promote professional identity Attempts to verify qualifications Sets minimum standards Does not assure quality practice © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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Certification and Licensure
Governs professional practice Highlights uniqueness of an occupation Restricts both use of title and practice of occupation © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
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