Table of Contents

Foreword - Douglas Hooper
PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND
Introduction
What Is Counselling?
Sources of Counselling Ethics
Framework for Counselling Ethics and Standards
PART TWO: RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CLIENT
Safety, Negligence and Insurance
Respect for Client Autonomy
Suicide and Refusal to Accept Life-Saving Treatment
Counsellor Competence
Avoiding the Exploitation of Clients
Confidentiality
PART THREE: THE COUNSELLOR AND OTHERS
Responsibility to Oneself, Colleagues and the Community
Counselling-Supervision
Record-Keeping
Monitoring Counselling
PART FOUR: THE WHOLE PICTURE
Ethical Problem-Solving
The Implications for Practice

About the Author

Tim Bond is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor to the University of Malta. He has a longstanding commitment to researching and writing about professional ethics for the talking therapies and promoting mental well-being. He is currently a consultant to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy on professional ethics and standards, a member of the Ethics Committee for the British Psychological Society and the Executive Council of the International Association for Counselling. He is a registered member of BACP and provides counselling supervision and training workshops.

Reviews

`This edition retains the same informative and accessible style and broadly the same order of contents as the First Edition, which makes it easy for readers to track down key changes. The author′s extensive experience in the field of ethics in counselling and his experience as Chair of BACP underpin this updated, essential and authoritative Second Edition′ - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling ′Tim Bond has done a great service to the counselling profession by writing, and now updating, this book… His particular strength must surely be his clarity in acquainting counsellors with the complexities of British law. After an introduction, he starts with an exploration of the origins and scope of counselling. He then exemplifies cases in which a counsellor′s personal and professional values collide. He has collected together a host of ethical dilemmas that counsellors might have to face′ - Naomi Stadlen, Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis