COUN 6634 - ETHICS IN COUNSELING

[3 Credits]

This course is designed to provide the graduate student with an overview of current legal, ethical, and professional issues related to the practice of counseling. The course focuses on providing the students with a point of reference from which to define acceptable professional behavior based upon the various Codes of Professional Ethics for Counselors, on helping students understand the problems, issues and concerns confronting counselor practitioners, and on developing an ethical awareness and problem solving approach to helping clients.