Counselling Skills – Week 4Friday

Moral and Ethical Issues and the BACP

Getting ready to write the first formal Assignment

Personal Check-in

• Relax on your own, in silence, for five minutes• Become aware of your thoughts• Become aware of your body and your feelings• Become aware of your spirit• Become ready for the day ahead.

Session Objectives

• Participate in a one to one tutorial with the tutor (Barbara)• Check in with self and with a small group• Agree the session outline including break times and lunch

times• Recognise the key features and purpose of the BACP

ethical framework. Complete a short quiz.• Consider some ethical dilemmas in the light of the BACP’s

stated values, principles and personal moral qualities; and the guidance on good practise.

• Consider the requirements for the unit one assessment.• Homework:• Write draft for the unit one assignment. To be handed in

on Friday 20th January

The BACP Ethical Framework

Complete the quiz using the pages of the BACP ethical framework provided

BACP and the Ethical Framework

BACP’s mission is to:

“Enable access to ethical and effective psychological therapy by setting and monitoring of standards”.

• From BACP website http://www.bacp.co.uk (accessed 29/3/11)

Moral and Ethical Issues

• Discuss a moral and ethical issue with three other people

• Focus on the relevant principles, values and personal moral qualities

• Consider other relevant guidance from the section entitled “Guidance on good practice…”

• Share your finding s with the whole group

The Dilemmas

• You discover that your client is a colleague of your best friend and that they have recently started to go to the local gym together. You and your client have both been invited to your friend’s 30th birthday party.

• You find your client sexually attractive and realise that you are flirting with him/her

• Your client tells you that he/she is going to commit suicide.

• Someone close to you dies. You are currently working with six different clients.

• A disabled client asks if it would be possible to see you in their home because it is easier for them.

• Your client phones you at any time and expects you to talk and to listen for long periods.

Unit 1 Assignment 1

• Consider the criteria for the unit one assignment.• Focus on a particular part of the question and

consider possible answers or sources of information.

• Share your ideas with the group.