Counseling Practice

Involving Emerging Issues

and
Clients Concern
Respecting human right and integrity
Respect for the client right to be self-
governing
A commitment to promoting the client’s well-
being;
Fostering responsible caring;
Fair treatment of all client and the provision
of the adequate services;
Equal opportunity to clients availing
counseling services;
Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client
relationship;
Practicing the practitioner’s self-
knowledge and care for self;
Enhancing the quality of professional
knowldge and care for self;
Responsibility to the society.
 Code of Ethics of Counselors
- States that counselors live and work
in accordance with the professional
standards of conduct set forth for the
practice of guidance and counseling.
They should not do harm to their
clients. They should be people of high
moral standing.
One of the oldest professional
organizations in guidance and
counseling is the Institute of
Guidance Counselors, established in
1968, and now a professional body
representing over 1,200 practitioners in
secondary schools, colleges guidance
services, and private practice in other
setting.
 The Institute of Guidance
Counselors’ Code consists of
four overall ethical principles
that subsume a number of
specific ethical standards:
Principle 1:
Respect for the
RIGHTS and
DIGNITY of the
client
Principle 2:
Competence
Principle 3:
Responsibility
Principle 4:
Integrity
Many other similar codes exist with the
same expectations for ethical conduct. The
fundamental principles include the
following
 Respecting human rights and dignity;
 Respect for clients right to be self-
governing;
 A commitment to promoting the client’s
well-being;
 Fostering responsible caring;
 Fair treatment of all clients and the
provision of adequate services;
 Equal opportunity to clients availing
counseling services;
 Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-
client relationship
 Fostering the practitioner’s self-
knowledge and care for self;
 Enhancing the quality of professional
knowledge and its application; and
 Responsibility to the society