CNSL 6410 Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling

This course will provide an opportunity for understanding the complex ethical and legal issues in the counseling profession. Students will be expected to actively participate in online discussions focusing on complicated and challenging topics.

Registration Name

Ethical, Legal, Profess Issues

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Online: Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will:

1.  Understand the multiple professional roles and functions of counselors across specialized practice areas.
2. Understand counselors’ roles, responsibilities, and relationships as members of specialized practice and interprofessional teams, including (a) collaboration and consultation, (b) community outreach, and (c) emergency response management.
3. Analyze the role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of and with individuals receiving counseling services to address systemic, institutional, architectural, attitudinal, disability, and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success.
4. Examine the role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession.
5. Evaluate legislation, regulatory processes, and government/public policy relevant to and impact on service delivery of professional counseling across service delivery modalities and specialized practice areas.
6. Discuss ethical standards of professional counseling organizations and credentialing bodies, and applications of ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling across service delivery modalities and specialized practice areas.
7. Implement self-care, self-awareness, and self-evaluation strategies for ethical and effective practice.
8. Understand the purpose of and roles within counseling supervision in the profession.