Ethical Issues, Principles, and Relationships in Counselling

This essay addresses ethical issues in counselling, focusing on the application of Kitchener's five moral principles: autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and fidelity. It examines how these principles can be used to navigate ethical dilemmas, particularly those related to client confidentiality and privacy within an organization. The essay also explores three key factors in establishing an ethical counselling relationship: the client factor, which emphasizes understanding the client's perspective; the counselor factor, highlighting the counselor's expertise and support; and the contextual factor, which considers the environment and comfort of the client. The essay references relevant literature to support its arguments.

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Table of Contents
Essay on ethical issues.....................................................................................................................3
Five moral principles of Kitchener for ethical issues..................................................................3
Three factors of ethical counseling relationship..........................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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Essay on ethical issues
Ethical issues refer to those issues which affects the standards and rules of the organisation. And
also affects the goal of an organisation (Löfström, 2019). The common ethical issues in the
organisation are harassment at the workplace Health and safety issues and privacy issues. In this
report privacy issue has been considered.
Five moral principles of Kitchener for ethical issues
Autonomy – this principle focuses on the concept of independence. As privacy of
employees is the major ethical issue in the organizations. So it is the responsibility of
management that they do not share any private information of any employee with others.
Justice - as per this principle, organisation must look at the needs of employees and try to
fulfill them.
Loyalty – organisation must bring change in the hierarchy and work culture and also give
equal opportunity to every employee so that they will remain loyal towards the
organisation.
Nonmaleficence–it means no one should harm others in the organisation. Even
organisation must not harm the privacy of the employees and give them work- life
balance.
Fidelity - this principle focuses on the concept of faithfulness and loyalty should be
maintained in the organisation.
Three factors of ethical counselling relationship
Client factor
This factor states that client is not object, counselor always remain aware that what is
going on in the mind of the client and how counselor can fulfill the needs of the client.
Counselor factor
Counselor must encourage and support the client to know the positive outcome of any
situation. Counselor must be expert in applying different methods so that all the issues of
client get resolved.
Contextual factor
This factor speaks the comfort of client (Katafiasz and et.al 2020). It is the liability of
counselor that their client must feel comfortable and open with counselor then only client
so can share their issues with counselor.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Katafiasz and et.al 2020. Ethical Decision-Making in Marriage and Family Therapy: A Review
of the Literature. Journal of Systemic Therapies.39(4). pp.29-39.
Löfström, E., 2019. Ethics in doctoral supervision–what is it and how does it matter?.
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