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Title: Ethics and principles of guidance and counselling
Description: Ethics are moral principles or rules of behaviour for deciding what is right and wrong. Counselors endeavor to help clients develop personal systems of ethics, using counselling skills. The task of counseling is to give the counselee an opportunity to explore, discover and clarify ways of living in more satisfying and resourceful ways. Maintaining good standards of counseling involves continuing self-monitoring and self-development on the part of the counsellor.

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Ethics and Principles in Guidance and Counseling
Introduction
Ethics are moral principles or rules of behaviour for deciding what is right and wrong
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The task of
counseling is to give the counselee an opportunity to explore, discover and clarify ways of living
in more satisfying and resourceful ways
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The counseling
relationship by its nature is confidential
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Many of
these practices and procedures are driven by the code of ethics that professional counselors are
bound to follow
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It is unethical to disclose a counselee’s personal information, whether obtained
directly or indirectly or by inference
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The counsellor should also inform tire
counsellee of the limitations and the confidentiality
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Inform of all the financial arrangements to service prior to entering the counselling
relationships
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Accept a responsibility to encourage and facilitate the self-development of the counsellee
within the counsellee's network of relationships
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Be responsible for setting and monitoring the boundaries between a working relationship
and friendship, or for making the boundaries as explicit as possible to the counsellee
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Such arrangements may be necessary for follow-up after a termination and
for referral
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Guidance is concerned with the systematic development of the individual
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The direction one's life take-comes from the choices
one makes
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Respect: The guidance practitioner should at all times display the basic sense of respect to
the client and tire recognition of the client's right to self-determination
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Meanwhile, the practitioner must stimulate and
challenge the client to reflect upon his or her choices and opportunities
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Equality: During the guidance process, the client should be met with equality" and without
biases or prejudices related to gender, age, religion, disabilities, social-status, and educational
and ethnic backgrounds
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Openness: The client should always be made aware of the context, framework and conditions
under which the guidance process proceeds
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If the guidance practitioner must discuss die clients
situation with other parties, this must only be done with the permission of the client in
question
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This information should be concrete and must never include assessments
regarding personal relations
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Independence: Guidance should be aimed at addressing the interest of the client
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Principles of counselling
Counselling usually involves helping people to address specific problems that are troubling them
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Counselling helps the client to move towards a greater level of self-acceptance
and self-understanding
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Establish relationships: It is essential to establish a relationship of mutual trust with the
client
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This involves listening carefully
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Positive environment: It is important for the counsellor to provide a positive environment
for the client to express themselves
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The counsellor should learn how to tackle the client's
negative feelings or hostile demeanor while maintaining a friendly and open atmosphere
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Understand social influence: It is important for the counsellor to understand how social
influence greatly affects behaviour
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It
encompasses empathy for as well, as listening carefully to the client
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Provide correct information: Any information availed to the client should be correct
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A good counsellor is the one who brings his or her human qualities and experiences that have
influenced him or her to help the counselee
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The following
are some of the skills, qualities and characteristics of an effective counsellor
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Wise and warm
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A counsellor must know his or her strengths and weaknesses
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To be efficient and effective
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Counselling is a process where die counsellor invites the clients to share
their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and problems
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A counsellor must put her own needs aside and focus on the needs of the
counsellee for the duration of the counselling session
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The counsellor should not talk about her own issues, except
where this is for die direct benefit of the client
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Listening enables the counsellor to understand the client fully
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The client feels relieved because he has somebody who can listen to his
problems
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Unconditional acceptance
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This means
accepting them unconditionally and seeing them as a human being who can make his or
her own decisions
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Observant
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Body language is a very powerful
tool of communication and is more often than not used unconscious
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These actions are usually an indication of what the client is going through and
should not be overlooked
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For example, a client smiling
while is narrating a very sad experience
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Self-disclosure/genuiness
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The counsellor should not feign his concern for the client
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This means sharing with the client the feelings that the counsellor has at the
time
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A counsellor has the right to cancel a

contract if the client has been attracted to him or her sexually
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Reflecting feelings
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It involves endeavoring to
understand a client's story by paraphrasing or restating what he has just said
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Reflecting feelings also involves helping the client see themselves
from another person's perspective
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Empathetic
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It is the ability to feel with the client
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A counselor should not over identify with the client
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Genuine
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A counsellor should observe confidentiality
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A counsellor should
be reliable and consistent
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Patience
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This may include tolerating some ambiguity and letting the counselling
situation proceed naturally
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Sensitive
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It
communicates safety and sensibility, and is closely related to reflection of feelings and
empathy
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Probing
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A counsellor should ask factual questions when seeking some information
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Descriptive
questions are asked to enable the client give an account of their experiences or situations
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An example of this would be to inquire how one reacted to the death of a
loved one
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Prompts
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They can be in the form of statements, interjections or questions
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Availability
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Fie or she should be able to withstand heart breaking and frightening issues
without quick emotional reactions
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 Maintaining good standards of counselling involves continuing self-monitoring and selfdevelopment on the part of the counsellor
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 Counselors should always be available for and accessible to the clients
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Title: Ethics and principles of guidance and counselling
Description: Ethics are moral principles or rules of behaviour for deciding what is right and wrong. Counselors endeavor to help clients develop personal systems of ethics, using counselling skills. The task of counseling is to give the counselee an opportunity to explore, discover and clarify ways of living in more satisfying and resourceful ways. Maintaining good standards of counseling involves continuing self-monitoring and self-development on the part of the counsellor.