Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century: A Case-Based Guide to Virtuous Practice

Even with the development of codes of ethics and laws, counseling professionals are often left in quandaries when it comes to questions of ethics. In Elliot D. Cohen and Gale Spieler Cohen's Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century, students are provided with a systematic, philosophical approach to mental health ethics. The authors have created a comprehensive model of ethical decision making as a basis for addressing a number of difficult ethical problems that are raised throughout the book, and their decision making framework helps students define the problem, identify relevant facts, conduct an ethical analysis, make a decision and implement it into action. The authors draw on their wealth of clinical and practical experience to develop a text that is built around real-life complex case studies and provide students with the opportunity to analyze and discuss ethical scenarios and common dilemmas faced by counselors and therapists.