Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions - Softcover

"Once again, Corey, Corey and Callanan have provides the most extensive, thorough, compelling, complete and comprehensive text in the area of professional issues and ethics in the helping professions. The text is understandable, very readable and exhaustive in its treatment of the dominant contemporary themes that are prevalent today. The breadth and depth of the material provided in the text is secondary to none..."

Up-to-date and challenging, this best-selling text is a practical manual that helps future and current professionals deal with ethical issues that they will confront at the various stages in their development. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. They raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and provide readers with many opportunities to refine their own thinking and to actively develop their own position. The authors explore such questions as: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? What considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations?