Counselor Role and Functions, Professional Ethics, Stress, and Self-Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-49
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Counselor Role

Lessons from Feminist Therapy for Ministerial Ethics

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Feminist Therapy ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Boundary Maintenance

Suggests a parallel between the situation that provoked a code of ethics for feminist therapy and the current situation in pastoral ministry. Notes that both professions have critiqued others' professional ethics and have tended to consider themselves, by definition, ethical. Observes that both professions possess diverse theoretical perspectives and often propose practices which raise ethical dilemmas not governed by traditional codes of ethics. Opines that boundary maintenance in small communities and the notion of overlapping relationships may carry solutions from some feminist therapy to the solving of problems of ministerial ethics. Claims that making self-care a part of ethics is essential.

scholarly journals What Can Be Asked of Interrogators?

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-278
Author(s):  
Michael Skerker
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Interrogation Techniques ◽  
Rights And Interests

This chapter considers how the rights and interests of interrogators should shape interrogation ethics. What can States ask of their police and military interrogators, given that certain interrogation techniques may have lasting moral and psychological effects on practitioners? I reject a prominent theory advocating a complete separation between professional and nonprofessional moral spheres as well as a theory that expects professionals to martyr themselves by using expedient methods even if they are conventionally considered immoral. I develop a theory of professional ethics involving a triangulation among the rights and interests of professionals, their clients, and their “targets.” The chapter applies the preferred standard of professional ethics to different modern interrogation methods. It draws on interviews with over a dozen interrogators to highlight concerns about the emotional toll that certain techniques may have on the interrogator. I conclude with recommendations on how interrogators using modern rapport-based techniques can engage in self-care to avoid compassion fatigue and moral injury.

Awareness and Decision Making in Professional Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Swain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aid Decision

The paper describes the development of the 1998 revision of the Psychological Society of Ireland's Code of Professional Ethics. The Code incorporates the European Meta-Code of Ethics and an ethical decision-making procedure borrowed from the Canadian Psychological Association. An example using the procedure is presented. To aid decision making, a classification of different kinds of stakeholder (i.e., interested party) affected by ethical decisions is offered. The author contends (1) that psychologists should assert the right, which is an important aspect of professional autonomy, to make discretionary judgments, (2) that to be justified in doing so they need to educate themselves in sound and deliberative judgment, and (3) that the process is facilitated by a code such as the Irish one, which emphasizes ethical awareness and decision making. The need for awareness and judgment is underlined by the variability in the ethical codes of different organizations and different European states: in such a context, codes should be used as broad yardsticks, rather than precise templates.

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