CLIN610 Legal and Ethical Foundations
This course will expose students to many of the ethical, legal, and professional issues involved in the counseling profession and give them a basis for making informed professional decisions. It will help each student develop a philosophi≠cal basis for making ethical decisions in the professional situations they encoun≠ter. During the course each student will have an opportunity to discuss many of the ethical, legal, and professional issues involved with counseling. They will then be presented with a number of situations and questions that contain ethical and professional issues they may face as counselors in their professional posi≠tions. They will analyze those situations and questions in terms of the ethical and legal codes of the organizations under which all human service personnel work. Finally, they will understand the differences in legal and ethical standards for the different types of settings in which they may work.