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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, Tenth Edition
Ethics codes tell you the boundary. They rarely tell you what to do inside it, where most real dilemmas live. Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey and Cindy Corey built this ethics in the helping professions text around that gap, and it is used across counselling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy and human services.
Rather than handing down answers, the book lays out the central issues, presents the reasoning on each side, and asks the reader to take a position they can defend. Many students keep the book on the shelf well into professional practice.
The issues the book works through
- The counsellor as a person: values, self-awareness, and how a practitioner’s own material enters the room.
- Informed consent and confidentiality, including the limits and the duty to warn.
- Multiple relationships and boundary issues, the area that generates the most complaints and the least consensus.
- Competence, training and supervision, and knowing the edge of your own practice.
- Multicultural and social justice perspectives in ethical practice.
- Ethics in couples, family and group work, where the client is more than one person.
- Community practice and professional liability.
How the book teaches
Self-inventories surface the reader’s existing assumptions before each chapter argues with them. Open-ended cases carry commentary from the authors instead of a single correct answer, and the text engages directly with the professional codes of the major associations.
Book details
- Title: Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions
- Authors: Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey and Cindy Corey
- Edition: Tenth Edition (MindTap Course List)
- Publisher: Cengage Learning
- ISBN-13: 9781337406291
- Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Questions buyers ask
Who is this ethics in the helping professions book for?
Counselling, clinical psychology, social work and human services students, plus marriage and family therapy and school counselling trainees. Supervisors, practicum instructors and clinicians preparing for a licensure exam with an ethics component also use it.
Does it hand down fixed answers to ethical dilemmas?
No. It lays out the central issues and the reasoning on each side, then asks the reader to work out a position they can defend within the limits of professional codes.
What edition is this?
The tenth edition, MindTap Course List, published by Cengage Learning on January 1, 2018.
What format does it ship in?
Hardcover, 608 pages, ISBN 9781337406291.
Does it cover confidentiality and the duty to warn?
Yes. A chapter covers informed consent and confidentiality, including its limits and the duty to warn, alongside chapters on multiple relationships and professional liability.
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