Ethics in a Multicultural Context

Sherlon P. Pack-Brown - Bowling Green State University, USA
Carmen Braun Williams - University of Colorado at Denver, USA

Series:
Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series

Other Titles in:
Counselling and Psychotherapy (General) | Multi-Cultural Counselling

May 2003 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

Ethics in a Multicultural Context is a practical text and resource book intended to help mental health practitioners and trainees develop ethical decision-making skills which reflect cultural responsiveness. The main focus is ethical decision-making in an applied counselling context. The book: covers ethical dilemmas arising in face-to-face counselling interactions; the supervisory relationship; and the teaching of counselling.

Each chapter of Ethics in a Multicultural Context includes cases or critical incidents followed with suggested exercises that can be used in counsellor education settings, includes comprehensive and practical treatment on ethical decision-making in a multicultural context and focuses on strategies to promote critical thinking in regard to ethical multicultural practice.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Section I. Overview

Chapter 1. Brief Review of Principles and Goals of Three Ethical Codes

The American Counseling Association

The American Psychological Association

The National Association of Social Workers

Guidelines for Ethical Behavior

Processing Ethical Complaints

Critical Incident

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 2. Review of the Literature on Ethics in a Multicultural Context

Philosophical Ethics: Four Major Schools

Promoting Ethics in a Multicultural Context

Multicultural Counseling: The Fourth Force in Counseling

ACA, APA, NASW: 1980 to present

Critical Incident

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 3. Ethical Codes: Multicultural Explorations and Implications

Cultural Competence

Purposive Decision-Making: Promoting Cultural Intentionality and Competence

Culturally Biased Assumptions

Worldview Analysis

Critical Incident

Summary and Key Points

Section II Overview

Chapter 4. Confused? Try Thinking in a Competent and Multicultural Context

Competence within a Cultural Context

AMCD Multicultural Competencies

Moral Principles of Three Codes of Ethics: The View within a Cultural Context

A Multicultural Framework: Ethical Thinking and Decision-Making within a Multicultural Context

Review of ACA, APA, and NASW Ethical Codes Within a Cultural Content

Critical Incident

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 5. Awareness: The First Stage of Ethical Thinking in a Multicultural Context

The Person and Then the Professional

A Framework Promoting Self-Awareness to Facilitate Understanding the Cultural Behavior of Others

Approach to Difference

Critical Incident

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 6. Knowledge and Skills, Stages 2 and 3: Ethical Thinking and Decision-Making in a Multicultural Context

Precounseling: Becoming a Helper Within a Multicultural Context

Adapting Learned Skills and Counseling Theory to Work Ethically Within a Client's Cultural Framework

Plan of Action: Moving from Awareness and Knowledge to Action

Ethical Decision Making In a Multicultual Context

Summary and Key Points

Overview

Chapter 7. Dual Relationships

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 8. Unintentional Cultural Bias

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Expert's Discussion

Colleen Logan

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 9. Client Welfare

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 10. Bartering for Services

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Expert's Discussion

Michael Tlanusta Garett

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 11. Fostering Dependency

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Summary and Key Points

Chapter 12. Boundaries of Competence

ACA Code

APA Code

NASW Code

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Expert's Discussion

Sandra I. Lopez-Baez

Summary and Key Points

References

Glossary of Terms

Index

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