1. NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
Lesson 3 Ethics
NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills

3. Learning Objectives Ethical framework case-study
Comparing the BACP framework to NCS framework
Skills practice:
Re-stating, paraphrasing, summarising, reflecting

4. BACP Ethical Framework
Values
Principles
Personal Moral Qualities

5. What do you remember?

6. Respecting human rights and dignity
Alleviating symptoms of personal distress and suffering
Enhancing people’s wellbeing and capabilities
Improving the quality of relationships between people
Increasing personal resilience and effectiveness

7. Facilitating a sense of self that is meaningful to the person(s) concerned within their personal and cultural context
Appreciating the variety of human experience and culture
Protecting the safety of clients
Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client relationships

8. Enhancing the equality of professional knowledge and its application
Striving for the fair and adequate provision of services
Values inform principles. They become more precisely defined and action-orientated when expressed as a principle.

9. Being trustworthy: honouring the trust placed in the practitioner
Autonomy: respect for the client’s right to be self-governing
Beneficence: a commitment to promoting the client’s wellbeing
Non-maleficence: a commitment to avoiding harm to the client

10. Justice: the fair and impartial treatment of all clients and the provision of adequate services
Self-respect: fostering the practitioner’s self-knowledge, integrity and care for self
Ethical decisions that are strongly supported by one or more of these principles without any contradiction with the others may be regarded as well-founded

11. Care: Diligence: Courage: Empathy: Identity: Humility: Integrity:
Resilience:
Respect:
Sincerity:
Wisdom::
Personal Moral Qualities

12. Homework: Assignment 3criteria 3.1.1, 3.1.2
Part A: Ethical Framework (500 – 750 words)
Consider the BACP ethical framework paying particularly attention to the Values, Moral qualities and Principles. In your own words, what do you understand to be the key features of each of section? Reflect on their impact on your own beliefs around counselling.
Part B: Ethical Framework comparison (750 – 1000 words)
Compare the BACP ethical Framework to the NCS Ethical Framework or UKCP Framework (you choose). What do they say are the values, principles and moral qualities required for counselling? How are they different to the BACP? How are they the same?
Which fits best with your own counselling beliefs?
To be handed in week 7

13. Non-verbal skills Before you start the session, as well as during the session:
SOLER:
S – Face the client Squarely
O – Adopt an Open posture
L – Remember that it is possible at times to Lean toward the other
E – Maintain good Eye contact
R – Try to be relatively Relaxed or natural in these behaviours.
Egan, G (2002) The Skilled Helper, Seventh Edition, Wadsworth Group

14. 4 basic counselling skills
Reflecting
Re-stating
Paraphrasing
Summarizing

15. Reflecting
To repeat or re-iterate words that the client says to you. You are showing the client that you are listening with your full attention and it can bring some specific focus to a particular word or phrase. For example:
Client: “I can’t take it anymore, I’m too tired...”
Counsellor: “You can’t take it anymore...”
Nelson-Jones, R (2016), Basic Counselling Skills, 4th Edition, SAGE Publications LTD

16. Re-Stating Emphasising the emotional content of the client’s
communications. For instance:
Client: “I feel down in the dumps.”
Counsellor: “You feel depressed.” or
Client: “I experience butterflies in my stomach.”
Counsellor: “You feel tension in your stomach.”1
Nelson-Jones, R (2016), Basic Counselling Skills, 4th Edition, SAGE Publications LTD

17. Paraphrasing: Express the meaning of a client’s statement in different
words. For example:
Client: “I keep trying not to mind about it, but I still do.”
Counsellor: “You make a real effort not to care about it,
but you keep doing so.”
Nelson-Jones, R (2016), Basic Counselling Skills, 4th Edition, SAGE Publications LTD

18. Summarizing:
Summaries pull information together, check and clarify understanding and reflect back different parts of a client’s statement.
Where possible, they help to move the session forwards. Summaries can identify themes, problem areas and problem situations.
If a client might be talking for a long time, a summary can help you to establish your presence and make the conversation more two-way.
Nelson-Jones, R (2016), Basic Counselling Skills, 4th Edition, SAGE Publications LTD

19. Did we cover this? Ethical framework case-study
Comparing the BACP framework to NCS framework
Skills practice:
Re-stating, paraphrasing, summarising, reflecting.

20. Homework:
Assignment 3
Reflection on skills session

21. Closing