3. COUN Ed: Professional Issues (T) Flashcards
2024
Professional issues and current trends in the counseling profession and their implications in the preparation of counselors. These issues include, but are not limited to, CACREP training standards, gatekeeping, federal laws, professional identity, online counseling and counselor education, and professional ethics. Question prepared for the CAU faculty by Dr. Ng and approved for the 2023 study guide by Dr. Field.
1.Demonstrate the ability to analyze and apply ACA Code of Ethics (2014) in general and Section F: Supervision, Training, and Teaching in particular.
2.Demonstrate the ability to analyze, and apply federal law and regulations such as FERPA, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and ADAAA (2008), Title IX (1972), and HIPAA in the context of counselor preparation in academic settings.
3.Demonstrate the ability to use multisystemic framework to discuss and analyze historical and current trends in the practice of professional counseling and counselor preparation.
4. Demonstrate the ability to articulate components and significance of professional counseling identity.
5.Demonstrate the ability to discuss and analyze gatekeeping issues in counselor preparation and how diversity, equity, and inclusion issues may play a role in these issues.
Sample question:
This is aimed to assess your knowledge and competence in applying professional counseling code of ethics in counseling practice. Please address the following:
A. Discuss briefly the basic foundational principles underlying the latest ACA Code of Ethics.
B. Discuss briefly the importance/rationale for professional counselors to be familiar with the Code of Ethics that governs counseling practice.
C. Outline the steps that professional counselors need to follow to help them decide their course of action when they suspect that an ethical violation has taken place in their work setting. Specific ethical violation can be one that is committed by them or by fellow colleagues in the work setting. You may choose to address this part of the question based on a briefly described incident of violation, though it is not required.
Suggested learning resources:
* 2014 ACA Code of Ethics
* Ethical decision-making models
* 2016 CACREP Standards.
* Adams, M., Bell, L. A., & Griffin, P. (Eds.) (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice (2nd ed.). Routledge Taylor & Francis.
* Bloom’s Taxonomy
* CACREP Guiding Statement for Program Evaluation and Student Assessment.
* Herlihy, B., & Corey, G. (Eds.) (2015). ACA ethical standards casebook (7th ed.). American Counseling Association.
* McAuliffe & Eriksen. (2011). Handbook of counselor preparation: Constructive, developmental, and experiential approaches.
* See learning resources listed in COUN 696.
Please do not limit your resources to the above-listed ones.
How might you develop a lesson plan that focuses on helping master’s students understand the importance of knowing the history and development of counseling?
How might you help a student to develop their own professional identity?
How do ecosystemic factors influence the professional identity development of counselors?
Define and discuss professional advocacy. Discuss the importance of professional advocacy in counseling locally, nationally, and internationally.
If you were a counselor educator, site supervisor, or licensure supervisor, how might you help your students or supervisees understand the importance and value of joining a counseling association?
