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    The document discusses the Practitioner's Ethical Decision Making Model issued by the American Counseling Association. The model provides a straightforward, concrete process for ethical decision making. It ensures all relevant aspects are considered, including applicable ethical codes, implications for all parties, alternatives, consequences, and follow up. The thorough, systematic process outlined in the model would allow counselors to make sound, ethical decisions.

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    The document discusses the Practitioner's Ethical Decision Making Model issued by the American Counseling Association. The model provides a straightforward, concrete process for ethical decision making. It ensures all relevant aspects are considered, including applicable ethical codes, implications for all parties, alternatives, consequences, and follow up. The thorough, systematic process outlined in the model would allow counselors to make sound, ethical decisions.

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    The document discusses the Practitioner's Ethical Decision Making Model issued by the American Counseling Association. The model provides a straightforward, concrete process for ethical decision making. It ensures all relevant aspects are considered, including applicable ethical codes, implications for all parties, alternatives, consequences, and follow up. The thorough, systematic process outlined in the model would allow counselors to make sound, ethical decisions.

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    Ethical Decision Making Model

    Amy J. Sayler

    Department of Psychology and Counseling, Hood College

    COUN 501: Professional, Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

    Dr. Nicola Meade

    September 3, 2020
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    Ethical Decision Making Model

    In reviewing the different ethical decision making models, I found myself drawn to a

    number of them. I liked aspects of many of the models, but I kept coming back to the straight

    forward completeness of the Practitioner's Ethical Decision Making Model issued by the

    American Counseling Association’s Center for Counseling, Policy and Research (Forester-Miller

    & Davis, 2016). This model has no ambiguity. It presents concrete steps with deeper

    fundamental aspects to consider at each step. This model ensures that all of the aspects

    associated with an ethical decision are covered: who is the issue related to, what ethical, legal or

    professional codes are applicable, what the implications of this issue are in terms of the

    fundamental counseling principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, maleficence, and fidelity,

    and an emphasis on diversity and/or cultural considerations. The model requires a complete

    assessment of all possible actions, a consultation with colleagues, and a full review of all

    possible consequences and outcomes for all parties involved. Then, when the best action or

    actions have been been chosen, the model requires further assessment of the action to ensure

    there are no new ethical considerations, the action is fair and something the counselor would be

    comfortable sharing with the public, and the counselor is confident that they would recommend

    the same action to another counselor in the same situation. (I found these ideas: justice, publicity

    and universality, to be highly appropriate and logical.) Once the action has been implemented,

    the model requires follow up to ensure the action ended up having the desired outcome and there

    were no unintended consequences. The process outlined in this model is thorough and straight

    forward, and if all steps are followed, I feel a counselor would be well equipped to make a

    sound, ethical decision.


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    References

    Forester-Miller, H., & Davis, T. E. (2016). ​Practitioner’s guide to ethical decision making

    (Rev. ed.). Retrieved from

    http://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/ethics/practioner’s-guide-to-

    ethical-decision-making.pdf

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