Marina, an art therapist, is contemplating purchasing her former clients artwork in a silent auction. Marina has found herself falling in love with her client Christobanks artwork. She has come to me for a consultation asking if it would be unethical of her to purchase the artwork to display at her home. Marina explains that Christobanks has been in counseling with her for several months but they have mutually decided that treatment would be terminated. Due to termination Marina is contemplating if it is ethical for her to purchase the artwork. Many ethical dilemmas arise in this situation. Confidentiality, client consent, client welfare, and extending counseling boundaries are the main ethical codes that surface in this specific situation.
To begin, the counselor described her client and the ethical dilemma that took place. CMB was seeing her client, a 36-year-old white woman, for one and a half years. The client’s reason for attending counseling was to work through family issues, particularly, managing the effects of growing up with an alcoholic father. One day, the client asked CMB if she would take on her sister as a client. Initially, the counselor was hesitant, explaining that she does not normally like to take on new clients who have a personal relationship with her current clients. However, the client pushed, and explained that her sister was going through a very specific situation, unrelated to her own therapy, that would only require short term counseling. Further, the client said that is will not interfere with her counseling experience. So, CMB decided to take on her current client’s sister as a new client.
Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom has been both entertaining and interesting from a counseling standpoint in that it provides a scandalous and as was in most of the cases, a look at what could go wrong if ethics in a clinical counseling setting go awry. Following the characters of Seymour Trotter, Earnest Lash, and Marshal Streider in working with their clients and with each other the ethical lessons to be learned become obviously apparent, if not emotionally painful. Although, numerous issues arise throughout the book, there were at least three that will be covered within the context of this writing. In consideration of each of these ethical breaches there will be dialog on the nature of the ethical issue or violation, where the ACA ethical code applies, ramifications of the ethical issue or violation on both parties, and application of Kitchener?s five primary ethical principles that were involved or violated. In addition, the justification offered by the characters in the book for their actions or considered actions, application to the situation in the setting of Clinical Mental Health counseling, and indication of personal response to the situation presented. Understanding that the use of these ethical principles and considerations as they apply in counseling are unequivocally valuable tools in helping a practitioner in working with clients to make comprehensive decisions that will not create conflict within their ethical parameters and are aligned with the laws
Professional counselors and their staff are exposed to sensitive client information and records. The helpful receptionist and whose privilege videos, show how to apply both the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics (ACA Code of Ethics) and state board counseling laws to common ethical scenarios. The content explores aspects designed to call attention to favorable and unfavorable skills and techniques in handling such matters. These two videos demonstrate the limitations of confidentiality and privileged information. As a professional counselor one is expected to uphold the principles of confidentiality and privilege according to the ACA Code of Ethics and state laws. One may conclude that the helpful receptionist video shows clear violations of confidentiality. While the whose privilege video indicates the significance of insuring that counselors comprehend state laws and ethics codes pertaining to confidentiality and privilege. Furthermore, counseling professionals are held accountable for violating ethics codes and state laws as well as training staff on informed consent.
The ethical dilemma I wish to explore is The Duty to Warn. This refers to the duty of a counselor, therapist to breach one of the most important bonds between a client and a therapist; the law of confidentiality. The therapist has the right to break confidentiality without the fear of being brought up for legal action. If the therapist believes that the client poses a danger, or is a threat to himself, someone else, or society as a whole, the therapist must decide how serious of a threat the client may be, then if he decides it’s a serious issue, he must notify the person in danger, which would e the third party, or the police, or other people who may be in the
The American Counseling Association and the American Mental Health Counselors Association Codes of Ethics both provide guidance and direction in making ethical decisions for their members (ACA, 2005) (AMHCA, 2010). Both the ACA and the AMHCA Codes of Ethics cover a wide range of moral and ethical situations that could present themselves to mental health professionals. Both of these codes of ethics have significant impacts on the counseling profession. The tools provided by these codes of ethics ensure that mental health professionals are able to conform to the regulations set forth. They address common concerns from varying points of view. Understanding these codes of ethics is essential to all mental
The first ethical dilemma that is evident in this case is whether it was ethical for the client and her former therapist to engage in a romantic relationship during the course of her treatment. The ethical argument goes against the romantic relationship because the relationship of client and therapist is one where the therapist holds greater influence and power over the client. He knows the personal problems and confidential issues of the client and may use them against her to exploit her during the relationship or after it. This is addition to the risk that emotional involvement with a client may cause the impartiality and objectivity of the diagnosis and analysis of her case to suffer. Even though the client assumes responsibility or encouraging the romantic relationship, the former therapist
There are several ethical dilemmas that the mental health professionals that are working as a team will face including “ensuring that the client has given informed consent, maintaining client confidentiality, and involving professionals, paraprofessionals, and family in appropriate coordinated processes that benefit the client” (Paproski & Haverkamp, 2000, p.96).
Video presentation: The video clip was quite interesting I found it to be very educational as to the legal obligations of therapists in the mental health field. There were issues that were brought up that were quite important, such as therapists need to understand confidentiality, privileged information, and a therapists responsibility related to reporting suspected child abuse, elder abuse, and/or suicidal ideations, and possibly the most important of them all is a therapists duty to warn. The first case they were
We will be discussing an everyday ethical dilemma in the graphic design shop. This dilemma is using resources such as a stock photo or font that require purchase but the designer has a way to “cheat” and get the resource free without purchasing the license for commercial user. We will be using the eight steps of ethical decision making. Once the steps have been applied, we will compare our original decision to the decision reached by using the eight steps of the ethical decision process.
Social responsibility, is a set of conduct that describes how my actions are going to ease the society. It can mean trying to bring about change. Practically, many people tend to be either occupied or obedient. As a society, I think there are plenty of power in which the people have over art. Art has made many people know about information that is going on around the world
Values such as personal, symbolic, religious and iconic can be shown in these three major artworks, Christian Boltanski’s 2010’s artwork ‘Personnes’, Damien Hirst’s 2007’s artwork ‘For the Love of God’ and Jeff Koons’s 1994 – 2010’s artwork ‘Balloon Dog/Balloon Rabbit’.
In “Painting and Ethics”, A. W. Eaton points out that paintings are valuable in many ways. They can have “economic, instrumental, historical, religious, sentimental, therapeutic, or educational value – to only name a few”. When morals or ethics are illustrated through art, the audience’s perception of the art changes based on their own morals. Many museums feature art pieces that deal with popular issues of the world, many of which are controversial. Just by walking through a gallery, one is exposed to many viewpoints on society, family relationships, culture, and history. Art is one way of expressing culture and of communicating ethics by picturing models of our morals.
Ethical issues in a counseling practice lay the foundation of a therapist in practice. Ethics are at the center of how the counseling process functions and operates in a successful manner for the clients who seek help in such a setting. In order for the counseling profession to be ethical and hold professional recognition, there are many facets that need to be examined and outlined to make sure all counselors and practitioners are functioning at the highest level and withholding their duties required by the counseling profession. The first introduction so to speak of the area of ethics also happens to be one of the first steps in counseling, which is the informed consent. The informed consent provides the basis of what happens or will be
The history that children are taught in school is filled with idols that continue to bring recognition even out of the oldest, Dementia-ridden men. History is little different from a movie or book, filled with characters that bring out feelings that can vary from a feeling of pure rage to one of thankfulness, that inspire a child living in poverty to work their way up to the top and remind the common person of their ethical values; one will often find identification within the figures that have shaped the community that they live in whether it be via relatibility or the influential voice of long dead
The delicate relationship between artist and artwork is one that seems so intensely personal that it _____. In spite of this intimacy, the positive or negative actions of an artist or the responses elicited from their works are assessed by the eyes of the public— usually in hopes of locating a correlation between the two. This begs the most direct question of whether or not it’s possible to separate art from the artist. Within this dispute, more complex and dark arguments exist.