Full Description
Multicultural counselors often face a moral dilemma: should they follow the ethical guidelines of their professional counseling organization at the expense of a client or take the appropriate action while bending official standards?
Ethics in a Multicultural Context provides strategies for critical decision making in multicultural settings. Utilizing extensive case studies, authors Sherlon P. Pack-Brown and Carmen Braun Williams present a comprehensive exploration of counseling ethics in a cultural context. Examining the implications and consequences of competent multicultural counseling, they present ethical dilemmas arising in face-to-face counseling interactions, supervisory relationships, and educational situations.
By placing ethical issues in a cultural context, this inclusive volume provides readers with the practical tools to address complex questions such as
Are dual relationships ethical?
How do you handle unintentional cultural bias?
Can you barter for counseling services?
How do you manage a client's welfare?
Does counseling foster dependence?
What are the boundaries of competence?
Ethics in a Multicultural Context encourages critical thinking rather than passive acceptance. The authors identify culturally troublesome issues, encourage culturally appropriate interpretations of existing ethical guidelines, and promote ethical behavior in multicultural contexts.
encourages critical thinking rather than passive acceptance. The authors identify culturally troublesome issues, encourage culturally appropriate interpretations of existing ethical guidelines, and promote ethical behavior in multicultural contexts. Designed for students and educators in counselor education and counseling psychology programs, this book is also an essential guide for social workers, psychologists, and health professionals who work in multicultural environments.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Section I. Overview
Chapter 1. Brief Review of Principles and Goals of Three Ethical Codes
The American Counseling Association
The American Psychological Association
The National Association of Social Workers
Guidelines for Ethical Behavior
Processing Ethical Complaints
Critical Incident
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 2. Review of the Literature on Ethics in a Multicultural Context
Philosophical Ethics: Four Major Schools
Promoting Ethics in a Multicultural Context
Multicultural Counseling: The Fourth Force in Counseling
ACA, APA, NASW: 1980 to present
Critical Incident
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 3. Ethical Codes: Multicultural Explorations and Implications
Cultural Competence
Purposive Decision-Making: Promoting Cultural Intentionality and Competence
Culturally Biased Assumptions
Worldview Analysis
Critical Incident
Summary and Key Points
Section II Overview
Chapter 4. Confused? Try Thinking in a Competent and Multicultural Context
Competence within a Cultural Context
AMCD Multicultural Competencies
Moral Principles of Three Codes of Ethics: The View within a Cultural Context
A Multicultural Framework: Ethical Thinking and Decision-Making within a Multicultural Context
Review of ACA, APA, and NASW Ethical Codes Within a Cultural Content
Critical Incident
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 5. Awareness: The First Stage of Ethical Thinking in a Multicultural Context
The Person and Then the Professional
A Framework Promoting Self-Awareness to Facilitate Understanding the Cultural Behavior of Others
Approach to Difference
Critical Incident
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 6. Knowledge and Skills, Stages 2 and 3: Ethical Thinking and Decision-Making in a Multicultural Context
Precounseling: Becoming a Helper Within a Multicultural Context
Adapting Learned Skills and Counseling Theory to Work Ethically Within a Client's Cultural Framework
Plan of Action: Moving from Awareness and Knowledge to Action
Ethical Decision Making In a Multicultual Context
Summary and Key Points
Overview
Chapter 7. Dual Relationships
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 8. Unintentional Cultural Bias
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Expert's Discussion - Colleen Logan
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 9. Client Welfare
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 10. Bartering for Services
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Expert's Discussion - Michael Tlanusta Garett
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 11. Fostering Dependency
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Summary and Key Points
Chapter 12. Boundaries of Competence
ACA Code
APA Code
NASW Code
Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Expert's Discussion - Sandra I. Lopez-Baez
Summary and Key Points
References
Glossary of Terms
Index
About the Authors
