Assignment:
Topic: Ethical Issues In Family And Group Work
Objectives:
1. Describe the methods used to ensure family and group members understanding of confidentiality as well as how breaches of confidentiality will be managed. Need Assignment Help?
2. Describe the specific ethical issues inherent in group counseling and identify ways that they can be managed by a professional counselor.
3. Describe the strategies for interfacing with the legal system regarding court-referred clients.
4. Synthesize ethical responsibilities regarding technology's impact on the counseling profession in a clinical counseling scenario.
5. Assess personal values and gender/cultural issues that may create ethical dilemmas in couples/family counseling.
6. Present ethical ways that a counselor can manage limited resources, respond to discrimination, advocate for mental health clients and the counseling profession, and promote community change.
Assessment Description:
You are a counselor working at a publicly funded alcohol and drug treatment program. Your client, Doug, attends one of your counseling groups. He has a previous conviction and is on probation for possession of an illegal substance. He also entered treatment as a court-referred client. Doug's probation officer is aware that Doug is in treatment, and the officer has sent you a letter requesting that you provide a progress report and an assessment of Doug's likelihood of relapse. The probation officer will use this information, if favorable, to petition the court for Doug's early release from probation.
Discuss your options and strategies for responding to the probation officer's request and describe what you would do. Cite relevant legal issues, including federal confidentiality and privacy regulations in your discussion. Identify the specific circumstances when you would provide the information requested by the probation officer. How would you handle this differently if Doug were voluntarily attending the group?
In your response, you must include the specific code(s) from the ACA Code of Ethics or the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors that address the concerns raised in the case. Be sure to provide the full text of the code followed by an in-text citation and a full reference at the end of your response.
To strengthen your response, you may also include citations and references from the Corey text or other assigned readings relevant to the topic.
This discussion question is informed by the following CACREP Standard:
5.C.3.c. Strategies for interfacing with the legal system regarding court-referred clients.