1. Counselling Skills – Week 4 Friday
Moral and Ethical Issues and the BACP
Getting ready to write the first formal Assignment

2. Personal Check-in Relax on your own, in silence, for five minutes
Become aware of your thoughts
Become aware of your body and your feelings
Become aware of your spirit
Become ready for the day ahead.

3. Session Objectives
Participate in a one to one tutorial with the tutor (Barbara)
Check in with self and with a small group
Agree the session outline including break times and lunch times
Recognise the key features and purpose of the BACP ethical framework. Complete a short quiz.
Consider some ethical dilemmas in the light of the BACP’s stated values, principles and personal moral qualities; and the guidance on good practise.
Consider the requirements for the unit one assessment.
Homework:
Write draft for the unit one assignment. To be handed in on Friday 20th January

4. The BACP Ethical Framework
Complete the quiz using the pages of the BACP ethical framework provided

5. BACP and the Ethical Framework
BACP’s mission is to:
“Enable access to ethical and effective psychological therapy by setting and monitoring of standards”.
From BACP website (accessed 29/3/11)

6. Moral and Ethical Issues
Discuss a moral and ethical issue with three other people
Focus on the relevant principles, values and personal moral qualities
Consider other relevant guidance from the section entitled “Guidance on good practice…”
Share your finding s with the whole group

7. The Dilemmas
You discover that your client is a colleague of your best friend and that they have recently started to go to the local gym together. You and your client have both been invited to your friend’s 30th birthday party.
You find your client sexually attractive and realise that you are flirting with him/her
Your client tells you that he/she is going to commit suicide.
Someone close to you dies. You are currently working with six different clients.
A disabled client asks if it would be possible to see you in their home because it is easier for them.
Your client phones you at any time and expects you to talk and to listen for long periods. 7

9. Unit 1 Assignment 1 Consider the criteria for the unit one assignment.
Focus on a particular part of the question and consider possible answers or sources of information.
Share your ideas with the group.