Importance of Ethics and Professional Practice in Counselling and Community Service

This essay discusses the importance of complying with ethics and ethical frameworks within professional practice. It also discusses the ways in which counsellors or community service professionals can demonstrate ethical practice in existing professionals. The essay highlights the practical steps or strategies which can be used for showing being ethical in practice.

Ethics
And
Professional Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Ethics and Professional Practice dictates professionals’ series of regulations concerned with
how professionals should act for people with whom they relate professionally. It is analysed that
ethics has huge to do with morality along with the ways in which an individual act in sense of
badness or goodness (de Vries and Jochemsen, 2019). Ethical behaviour comprises respect for
key moral principles of a professional person including equality, honesty, dignity, individual
rights and so on. Code of ethics in a professional practice are designed in the manner that ensure
behaviour of people which is socially acceptable addition to respectful.
Present essay discusses importance of complying with ethics together with ethical
frameworks within professional practice. It also discusses the ways in which counsellors or
community service professionals can demonstrate ethical practice in existing professionals. Key
practical steps or strategies which can be used for showing being ethical in practice are
demonstrated ion the essay.
MAIN BODY
The ethics is a framework which help person in their daily life by making effective
decision, create positivity in their surrounding which impacts their professional work (Briggs and
Kane, 2020). Ethics guides to make world better place through the various choice that make by
the person. Ethics in the business is also important as ethics in their personal life. In a
professional practice, complying ethics and ethical framework are important because they
provide some common standards as well as set of regulations for all profession for adhering to.
Furthermore, they also act as legal standard for professional practice (Smith and Et. Al., 2021).
This directly impact the professional life that how it is very effective in their professional life.
The autonomy is important in professional life because it provide job satisfaction,
motivation, creativity and overall well-being. In organization, the employees in self-motivated
and inspired to achieved their targets and they are very engaged with their work and
responsibility. For example, if person want to become counsellors or community service
professionals then autonomy help person to get motivation for their goals which they want to
achieve and they become professional in this field (Martin and Ruitenberg, 2019). In
professional life non‐maleficence is also important that person need to set the principles which
requires that all benefits, risk and consequences, occasionally deeming to best advantages to

others. Then, beneficence is also important in professional life of person because it play very
primary role for ensuring which can provide a net benefits which will protect the person. This
help person to know about the professionals’ consideration for individual circumstances and
remember to know about what is good for this profession but it is not necessary to great for
another profession.
Community service providers can show practice of ethics in professionals through acting in
best interest of clients, protecting their rights, promoting goals, maximising good along with
minimising harm. The ethics of the counselling in the professional life is to take care of the
clients, nature of the profession, counsellors need to act in the best of their client, promoting
client goals, protecting client rights, maximising good and reduce the harm (Samuel, 2019).
The Utilitarian theory of ethics is used by a professional individual to demonstrate ethics in
their professional life. This theory helps in determining what is right from wrong by focused on
their outcomes, when people decide and choose themselves in particular field of profession. For
example, if person choose counsellors or community service professionals filed then they need to
analyse that on which they need to focus so that they become professional in this field (Allan,
2021). The Utilitarian theories can help to demonstrate professional life by doing
consequentialist, welfatist, impartial and aggregationist. This all help person to become more
professional in their life they want to become in counsellors or community service (Fossestøl,
2019). The purpose of Utilitarian which is related to their practical purposes, which are related to
their ideas which influences more important in their person life. If person chose particular field
of profession the they need to analyse the benefits and opportunities in future so that they
developed their carrier and become more effective and expertise their field. The person can
weigh their wellbeing of every on equally which it implies that should make helping others a
very important for their lives. This theory is very good for person ethics because it is large family
of consequentialist of ethical theories which help person to demonstrate right and wrong of
action which is determined for their tendency to produced good or bad consequence or out
comes.
Community service providers can use ample number of techniques for showing that they are
performing ethically while carrying out practices (McCollough, Wallace and Luttrell, 2022). The
practical strategies they can use to show that they are being ethical practices which is having
different steps or strategies of ethical. If people have ethics in their professional life, then they

will grow their business but some time the people is facing problem which is embed to an ethical
culture. The people become the professional in life then they need top developed some ethics in
their life which will help them to become more professional in their life.
Develop code is the first step to show being ethical in practice as it is used to communicate
with the people to prepare the strategy for the people to achieve the objectives and have standard
and expectations for key requirements for their ethical performance (McAuliffe, Swain and Day,
2018). Second step is setting the tone from their top of ethics which is senior management in
which the team must be show their leadership and it is the organization ethical values. This will
affect the professional life of the person that how it will affect their performance level. The third
is to provide support routes for the staff in which the management of their organization need to
the violation of the company policies on the ethical behaviour. Further, through engaging,
communicating along with training employees, community service providers can help in
embedding an ethical culture. Lastly, measuring effectiveness of ethical programme can also
show that a professional person carries out practices in ethical manner as with this, they ensure
that values of company and policies or codes or conduct are understood by each and every
organisational people (Skaaden, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From this demonstrated information, it has been stated that the ethics are most important
things which help people to their professional life. The ethics is the things which improve them
person quality in their performance of the professional life. If people don't have ethics, then they
don’t make their professional more effectively and they don't able to grab the new opportunities
which will enhance their life.

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