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Course Code Class Code Assignment Title Total Points
CNL-505 CNL-505-O502 Counselor Ethics and Responsibilities Paper (Topic 4 Obj.) 140.0
Criteria Percentage Unsatisfactory (0.00%) Less than Satisfactory (74.00%) Satisfactory (79.00%) Good (87.00%) Excellent (100.00%) Comments Points Earned
Content 70.0%
Client Rights 15.0% Includes little knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge is not evident. Includes little knowledge about the topic with few supporting details. Little subject knowledge is evident. Ignores or superficially evaluates the criteria. Lists the five ethical principles and discusses how they relate to client rights. Explains how these rights will be incorporated into professional practice with minimal details and/or rationale. Some subject knowledge is evident. Surface level of evaluation of the content is offered. Presents a detailed outline of the relationship between the five ethical principles and how they relate to client rights. Explains how these principles will be incorporated into professional practice with supporting details, and/or rationale. Informed consent is explicitly and thoroughly addressed in this description. Subject knowledge appears to be good. Analysis is direct, competent, and appropriate for the criteria. Presents a full detailed in-depth description of the relationship between the five ethical principles and client rights. Explain show these principles will be incorporated into professional practice with extensive details and/or rationale. Informed consent is explicitly and thoroughly addressed in this description. Subject knowledge is excellent. Thoughtfully analyzes and evaluates major points of the criteria.
Responsibility to Warn and Protect 15.0% Includes little knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge is not evident. Factors involved in decision making are vague or not present. Includes little knowledge about the topic with few supporting details. Little subject knowledge is evident. A minimal understanding of some factors involved in decision making is present. Includes knowledge about the topic with supporting details. Some subject knowledge is evident. Identifies with minimal detail the factors involved in decision making. Outlines the decision making process used to address the ethical issues. Some ambiguity may be found. Access and review the “Counselor Ethics and Responsibilities Assignment Guidelines.” Complete the paper according to the assignment guidelines.
Include at least six scholarly resources in addition to the textbook in your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Directions: Follow the directions below to write a paper of 1,750-2,100 words on counselor ethics and responsibilities.

Provide a thoughtful response to each of the following sections, including specific, concrete examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the section headings provided below to separate each section of your paper.

Your final deliverable should be one cohesive paper addressing all six sections along with an introduction and conclusion.

Part One:
Please note that part one must be written in the third person.
Section 1: Client Rights
1) Describe how you will incorporate the following five principles of ethical practice in order to maintain your clients’ rights.
a) Autonomy
b) Nonmaleficence
c) Beneficence
d) Justice
e) Fidelity
2) Discuss the informed consent process and how it protects client rights including:
a) Billing
b) Right to Privacy
c) HIPAA compliance
d) Compliance with credentialing board requirements for incorporating informed consent into practice

Section 2: Responsibility to Warn and Protect
Identify the factors that you will consider in order to determine your duty to warn and duty to protect responsibilities as a counselor. Be sure to consider ethical guidelines as well as the laws pertaining to the “duty to warn” and “duty to protect” in the state in which you plan to practice.

Section 3: Client Record-Keeping
Discuss the role of client record keeping in protecting the following:
a) a client’s right to a professional standard of care
b) the counselor from liability
Part Two:
Please note this section can be written in the first person.

Section 4: Self-care
After reading the introduction of Section C Professional Responsibility in the ACA Code of Ethics discuss the following:
1. What does the ACA Code of Ethics say about self-care?
2. How do you plan on maintaining a healthy balance between your professional and personal life?
3. What healthy self-care activities have you engaged in in the past or present?
4. What healthy self-care activities have you considered but haven t yet implemented?
5. What are some red-flags suggesting that you may need to address personal issues to avoid personal impairment?
6. How do you feel about counselors being counseled? Some programs require it. Do you agree with that concept?

Section 5: Advocacy
Go to the American Counseling Association (Government Affairs > Take Action) (https://www.counseling.org/government-affairs/actioncenter) to find a way to advocate for the counselors and the counseling profession at the governmental level. Summarize how you can get involved (approx. 100 words).

Section 6: Counselor Values
1) Select two of the following issues you feel strongest about from the following:
a) Abortion. (A 19-year-old rape victim wants an abortion, but her parents are vehemently opposed to abortion on religious grounds and have stated that they will no longer consider her their daughter if she proceeds. The young woman is firm in her plans, but wants your help in changing her parents attitudes.)
b) Gay adoption. (John and Bill, after living in a committed relationship for 7 years, decide that they want to begin a family. They have differing opinions about whether to use a surrogate mother or adopt a child.)
c) Assisted suicide. (Eleanor, an 87-year-old with terminal cancer, has decided to end her life but is undecided about how to discuss this with her family, or if she should discuss it with them at all. She seeks your guidance in this decision, but is not interested in revisiting her decision to end her life.)
d) Extramarital affairs. (Both spouses in a couple you are counseling are having affairs, which they claim are not contributing in any way to their current marital difficulties. They want your help in strengthening their marriage but they are both committed to the open marriage concept that does not require sexual monogamy.)
2) Describe your personal values and attitudes towards the selected issues as well as how you would counsel the client in each situation you selected. HINT: Make sure you reference ethical codes from ACA, NBCC, or NAADAC.

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