PPS72200 - Counseling Law and Ethics

(3 units)

This course provides a deep analysis of the ethical guidelines provided by NASP, ASCA, and APA, with an emphasis on working in Schools. Professional orientation, ethics, and law in counseling will be examined. Topics include: professional ethical standards and legal considerations, licensing law and process, regulatory laws that delineate the profession’s scope of practice, counselor-client privilege, confidentiality, the client dangerous to self and others, treatment of minors with or without parental consent, relationship between practitioner’s sense of self and human values, functions and relationships with other human service providers, and strategies for collaboration.