Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions . - Fifth Edition - Review - book review

Adolescence, Summer, 2000

COREY, Gerald, COREY, Marianne Schneider, & CALLANAN, Patrick. Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (Fifth Edition). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1998. 520pp. $44.95 (p).

This book is a practical manual for dealing with the ethical issues that all professionals confront at the various stages in their development. The authors emphasize that ethical decision making is an ongoing process with no easy answers, and the book provides readers with the knowledge and understanding they need to effectively think through issues. The authors provide readers with a basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. Case vignettes and open-ended questions invite students to think and participate in the learning process; exercises and activities at the end of each chapter make the material come to life. Chapters include: introduction to professional ethics; the counselor as a person and as a professional; values and the helping relationship; client rights and counselor responsibilities; confidentiality--ethical and legal issues; issues in theory, practice, and research; managing boundaries and multiple relat ionships; professional competence and training; issues in supervision and consultation; multicultural perspectives and diversity issues; the counselor in the community; ethical issues in marital and family therapy; and ethical issues in group work.