Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century: A Case-Based Guide to Virtuous Practice

Even with the development of laws and codes of ethics, counselling professionals are often faced with ethical dilemmas. Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century provides a systematic, philosophical approach to mental health ethics. Drawing on their wealth of clinical and practical experiences, Elliot D. Cohen and Gale Spieler Cohen help readers to define ethical problems, identify relevant facts, conduct an ethical analysis, make decisions and implement them. Built around real-life case studies, this comprehensive model for ethical decision-making provides the opportunity to analyse and discuss ethical problems faced by counsellors and therapists.