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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions

Tenth Edition

Chapter 2

The Counselor as a Person and as a Professional

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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)

2-1 Appreciate the role of counselor self-awareness in ethical practice

2-2 Provide a rationale for the importance of personal therapy for counselors

2-3 Clarify how countertransference can be an ethical concern

2-4 View client dependence as a potential ethical problem

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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)

2-5 Describe the main sources of stress that counselors must address

2-6 Understand how stress can lead to therapist impairment

2-7 Develop a personal strategy for ongoing self-care

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The Counselor as a Person and Professional

Counselors must be aware of the influence of their own personality and needs.

Examples of personal needs of counselors based on unresolved personal conflicts:

Need to tell people what to do

Strong desire to relieve all pain from clients

Need to have all answers and be perfect

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Personal Therapy for Counselors

Beneficial to both trainees and experienced practitioners

It is a necessary form of ongoing self-care

Reasons for participating:

To explore your values and motivations for becoming a helper

How your needs influence your actions and how you use power in your life

To identify and explore your blind spots and potential areas of countertransference

For remediation purposes

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Transference

The process whereby clients project onto their therapists past feelings or attitudes they had toward significant people in their lives

The “unreal” relationship in therapy:

Counselors need to be aware of their personal reactions to a client’s transference.

All reactions of clients to a therapist are not to be considered as transference.

Dealing appropriately with transference is an ethical issue.

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Countertransference

The therapist’s total emotional response to a client including feelings, associations, fantasies, and fleeting images

Occurs when clinicians:

demonstrate inappropriate affect.

respond in highly defensive ways.

lose their objectivity because their own conflicts are triggered.

Can be either a constructive or a destructive element in the therapeutic relationship

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Examples of Countertransference

Being overprotective with a client

Treating clients in benign ways

Rejecting a client

Needing constant reinforcement and approval

Seeing yourself in your clients

Developing sexual or romantic feelings for a client

Giving advice compulsively

Desiring a social relationship with clients

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Client Dependence

A temporary dependence is not necessarily problematic.

An ethical issue occurs when counselors encourage and promote dependence.

It can manifest in subtle ways:

Counselors may keep clients dependent.

Termination can be delayed.

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Stress in the Counseling Profession

Counseling can be a hazardous profession and lead to empathy fatigue.

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Sources of Stress

Some sources of stress for counselors:

Feeling they are not helping their clients

Accept full responsibility for clients’ progress

Feeling pressure to quickly solve clients’ problems

Extremely high personal goals and perfectionistic strivings

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Counselor Burnout and Impairment

Burnout:

A state of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual depletion characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness

Impairment:

The presence of a chronic illness or severe psychological depletion that is likely to prevent a professional from delivering effective services

Results in consistently functioning below acceptable practice standards

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Maintaining Vitality as a Counselor (1 of 3)

Sustaining the personal self is an ethical obligation

Personal vitality is a prerequisite to functioning in a professional role

Ongoing self-care is an essential part of professional competence and personal wellness

Self-Care: Positive actions that promote wellness and effective coping

Includes routine positive practices and mindful attention to one’s physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual selves

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Maintaining Vitality as a Counselor (2 of 3)

Therapeutic lifestyle changes

Exercise, nutrition, and diet

Recreation and time in nature

Relationships

Relaxation and stress management

Religious or spiritual involvement

Service to others

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Maintaining Vitality as a Counselor (3 of 3)

Clients can benefit from a counselor’s mindfulness practices even if clients are not practicing mindfulness themselves.

Self-compassion can enhance counselor well-being, counselor effectiveness in the workplace, and therapeutic relationships with clients.

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