Value Ethics and You

Value Ethics and You

Instructions:

This paper should address: 1) How your background (e.g., family, cultural, professional history and values derived from them) influences how you view yourself as a counselor (counselor identity), 2) How your counselor identity will influence the way you wish to practice counseling (counselor orientation) including approaches to working with clients/students, desired populations, and desired settings (as well as those you would avoid), 3) What incompatibilities exist between your personal identity and what is expected by the profession for your counselor identity and how do you anticipate resolving them as you continue to learn and grow in your counselor training? More details on this will be available in the course.

Some Key Tips to Guide You:

• Must cite: Consider who the field expects counselors to be by using the preamble of the two ethics codes, key attention needed in relation to the core professional values and principles (ACA) and description of who school counselors are (ASCA), especially in answering part 3
• Must cite: Inventory of Your Attitudes and Beliefs About Ethical Issues

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• It is helpful to think about your values in relation to “hot button” topics like counseling a minor regarding pregnancy, family values affecting first generation children, domestic violence or infidelity, religious differences, teen’s career choices, abortion, hospice, etc.
• APA style is required
• First person is OK
• No references needed except the Preamble of the two codes and the Inventory
• 2 – 3pages maximum, not including cover page

Value Ethics and You

Rubric

Personal history is discussed in relation to how it shapes your values and professional orientation with a focus on how cultural/ethnic/family values and experiences shaped current values and how these connect to the values of the counseling profession. Uses the Inventory of your Attitudes and Beliefs.

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Counselor orientation is fully explained and includes your vision of how you wish to practice, with whom you wish to work, and in what setting with a direct relationship drawn between your personal values and professional goals for practice

Incompatibilities and opportunities to enact values in counseling are discussed and analyzed with concrete examples of counseling situations in which this might occur and how you will resolve them