Module-1

Section 1- Using an Ethical Framework in Counselling Skills

  • 1.1 identify an ethical framework
  • 1.2 Identity key aspects of the ethical framework
  • 1.3 Describe how an ethical framework informs your own use of counselling skills

In this section

  • What is an Ethical Framework
    This document explains the concept of ethical frameworks in counselling focusing on the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions including its fundamental values, ethical principles, and personal moral qualities that guide professional practice.
  • Personal Moral Qualities
    This document explores the essential personal moral qualities that counsellors and psychotherapists should cultivate, including empathy, integrity resilience, and wisdom, which form the foundation of effective therapeutic relationships and ethical practice.
  • Practical Application of the Ethical Framework
    This document explores the practical application of the BACP Ethical Framework, including confidentiality management, professional boundaries supervision requirements, handling therapeutic endings, and responding to ethical dilemmas in counselling practice.
  • Using Ethical Framework to Inform Your Counselling
    This document explores how ethical frameworks inform counselling practice through specific professional requirements, focusing on privacy and confidentiality, client care and wellbeing, professional competence, and comparing frameworks from BACP, NCPS, and UKCP to demonstrate shared professional values.