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Chapter 6: Ethics, Issues and Inclusivity

ETHICAL AND LAW ASSIGNMENT

Directions:

1. Read the Scenarios below very carefully.

2. Answer: What do these three Scenarios have in common?

3. Identify the areas where:

a) ethics and/ or

b) dignity and/ or

c) law or policy have been violated

4. Provide reference to your identification of these violation(s)

5. Provide the proper way to speak, or handle each situation(s)

Scenario # 1

Barbara is a secretary for a private practice with four full-time counsellors, one of whom is clinical

director. She receives the following telephone request.

Caller: "I am Albert Newell, and I know that my wife Shirley is going to your centre for counselling

and would like to speak with whoever she is seeing there".

Barbara: "Mrs. Newell is being

seen by Miss Kennedy. Miss Kennedy is not available now, but I can have her call you".

Scenario # 2

A counsellor, working alone in a part-time private practice, has been seeing a 23-year-old female

client. On her first visit she was accompanied by her father, although the father did not participate

in the counseling session. The client has attended two sessions, and the counsellor subsequently

receives the following telephone call.

Caller: 'Hello, I am Mark Grossman, Simone Grossman's father. You might remember that I came

and waited for her on her first visit.'

Counsellor: 'Hello, Mr. Grossman, yes, I do remember your visit was very supportive of Simone.

What can I do for you?'

Caller: 'Well I would like to come in to speak with you about Simone'

Counsellor: 'Okay, Mr. Grossman, would Friday at 2 pm be okay for you'.

Scenario # 3

An addictions counsellor receives a letter from Ms. Breton, a local lawyer. In the letter, Ms. Breton

identifies Mr. Crane as one of the counsellor's clients and later in the letter she makes the following

request.

"I am presently preparing a legal claim on behalf of Mr. Crane, and he has given me permission to

speak to you. We both believe that you may have information which can help with this claim. Please

phone my office so that we can find a mutually satisfactory time to meet". The counsellor phones

Ms. Breton's office, and as requested arranges an appointment