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Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page i S E TANDARDS AND THICS FOR C A OUNSELLING IN CTION Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page ii Series Editor:Windy Dryden SAGE’s bestselling Counselling in Actionseries has gone from strength tostrength,with worldwide sales of well over 250,000 copies.Since the firstvolumes in the series were published,the number of counselling courseshas grown enormously,resulting in continuing demand for theseintroductory texts. In response,and to keep pace with current developments in theory and practice,SAGE are pleased to announce that new and expanded editions of six of the volumes have now been published. These short,practical books– developed especially for counsellors and students of counselling– will continue to provide clear and explicit guidelines for counselling practice. New editions in the series include: Feminist Counselling in Action,Second Edition Jocelyn Chaplin Gestalt Counselling in Action,Second Edition Petru¯ska Clarkson Transcultural Counselling in Action,Second Edition Patricia d’Ardenne and Aruna Mahtani Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action,Second Edition Windy Dryden Psychodynamic Counselling in Action,Second Edition Michael Jacobs Person-Centred Counselling in Action,Second Edition Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne Personal Construct Counselling in Action,Second Edition Fay Fransella and Peggy Dalton Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action,Second Edition Diana Whitmore Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action,Second Edition Ian Stewart Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page iii S E TANDARDS AND THICS C FOR OUNSELLING Second Edition Tim Bond SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page iv © Tim Bond 2000 First edition published as Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action1993 Reprinted 1994,1995,1997,1998,1999 This edition first published 2000 All rights reserved.No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks,California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32,M-Block Market Greater Kailash– I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0–7619–6308–1 ISBN 0–7619–6309–X (pbk) Library ofCongress catalog card number 00–130567 Typeset by M Rules Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd,Guildford,Surrey Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page v To Norman and Jean Bond Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page vi Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page vii C ONTENTS Foreword by Professor Douglas Hooper ix Acknowledgements xi PART I THE BACKGROUND 1 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 WHATISCOUNSELLING? 17 3 SOURCESOFCOUNSELLINGETHICS 38 4 FRAMEWORKFORCOUNSELLINGETHICSANDSTANDARDS 53 PART II RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CLIENT 63 5 SAFETY,NEGLIGENCEANDINSURANCE 65 6 RESPECTFORCLIENTAUTONOMY 75 7 SUICIDEANDREFUSALTOACCEPTLIFE-SAVINGTREATMENT 96 8 COUNSELLORCOMPETENCE 114 9 AVOIDINGTHEEXPLOITATIONOFCLIENTS 127 10 CONFIDENTIALITY 150 vii Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page viii CONTENTS PART III THE COUNSELLOR AND OTHERS 167 11 RESPONSIBILITYTOONESELF,COLLEAGUESAND THECOMMUNITY 169 12 COUNSELLING-SUPERVISION 181 13 RECORD-KEEPING 193 14 MONITORINGCOUNSELLING 209 PART IV THE WHOLE PICTURE 221 15 ETHICALPROBLEM-SOLVING 223 16 IMPLICATIONSFORPRACTICE 237 Appendix:Useful names and addresses 244 Bibliography 247 viii Standards CIA 29/2/00 10:59 am Page ix F OREWORD by Professor Douglas Hooper When I wrote the foreword for the first edition of this book I realized that Tim Bond was breaking entirely new ground in discussing these important issues in this extended form for the first time.What neither of us knew was how widely sold and how widely quoted his writing would be. The year 1993 was at the beginning of a surge of interest in these areas. This was due both to the increasing professional concerns,and also to the parallel rise in the complaints (often in the media) about counselling and psychotherapy.At times the articulated angry complaints have seemed to threaten the very existence of these helping disciplines.Yet the clear and unambiguous statement of the standards which every client should expect from their counsellor or therapist is the surest defence against both poor practice andscurrilous allegations. Tim Bond has clearly recognized these increased pressures in this revi- sion of his material and deals not only with the emergence of new issues (such as the debate on ‘false’or ‘recovered’memory in sexual abuse) but also with the rise of a variety of codes which have been confirmed by a number of the professional bodies involved.These often draw heavily on the pioneering work done by the British Association for Counselling and the present author,and he has helpfully given the reader the comparisons and comment which should make revision of the codes of practice more coherent. Sometimes the professionals forget that in discussing the minutiae of ix
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