Ethics in Counseling

ETHICS IN
COUNSELING

What are Ethics?
• The term which defines about any task which is right or which is wrong. It
is moral philosophy that helps any individual to eliminate concerns of life
with the understanding about evil and good (Houser, 2019).
• Ethics is classified in three basic studies which are defined as:
i. Consequentialist Theories
ii. Non-consequentialist Theory
• iii. Agent Centered Theories

1. Consequentialist Theory:
This theory is categorized in three different parts which are as follows:
i. Approach to utilitarian
ii. Approach to egoistic
iii. Approach in common good
2. Non-consequentialist Theory
It is categorized in four approaches which are:
iv. Approach by duty base
v. Approach to right
vi. Approach in Justice
vii. Approach for Divine
3. Age Centered Theory
It is categorized in two approaches
viii. Approach of Virtue
ix. Approach to Feminist (Wilkinson, Smith& Wimberly,2019).