CCPA Code of Ethics/Feminst DMM/Cheneville DMM

Question 1

CCPA Ethical Principles

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 1

1. Beneficence (promote clients best interest)
2. Fidelity (honouring commitment to clients)
3. Nonmaleficence (not harming clients)
4. Autonomy
5. Justice (dignity and justness for all)
6. Societal Interest (be responsible to society)

Question 2

What are the 3 stages of the CCPA ethical decision making model?

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 2

1. Principle-based ethical decision making
2. Virtue based ethical decision making
3. the Quick Check

Question 3

CCPA’s Principle Based Ethical Decision Making Process

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 3

1. What are the ethical considerations in this dilemma?
2. What ethics from the CCPA code are relevant here?
3. Which of the 6 ethical principles are of major importance in this situation? (here is also consultation, examining outcomes and alternatives)
4. How can the ethical articles be applied in this situation? Are there any conflicts between the principles, if so, how are they resolved? Risks and benefits of this solution?
5. What do my feelings and intuitions tell me?
6. What plan of action will be most helpful in this situation?

Question 4

CCPA’s Virtue Based Ethical Decision Making Process

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 4

1. What emotions/intuitions am I aware of? What are they telling me about this dilemma?
2. How can my virtues show caring for the client in this situation?
3. How will my decision affect other relevant individuals?
4. What decision would I feel best about publicizing?
5. What decision best defines me as a person?

Question 5

CCPA’s Quick Check for ethical decision making

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 5

1. Publicity-would I want others to hear about my decision?
2. Universality-would I make the same decision for another client? Would it be good if every counsellor made this choice?
3. Justice-is everyone being treated fairly by my decision?

Question 6

Standards of CCPA

Taken from CCPA code of ethics

Answer 6

Professional responsibility
Counselling relationships
Consulting and private practice
Evaluation and assessment
Research and publications
Counsellor education, training and supervision

Question 7

Feminist Therapy’s 4 Principles

From the website provided in course pack.

Answer 7

1. A person’s circumstances are always affected by economic and social position in society
2. No one should ever be blamed for being abused
3. The inherent power differences in the client-therapist relationship should be addressed
4. Initiative and change are healthy

Question 8

What is the ethical issue discussed in the Chenneville (HIV) article?

Answer 8

Confidentiality

Question 9

Chenneville: What well known case is the case law based off?

Answer 9

Tarasoff

Question 10

Duty to warn violates what value in the counselling relationship?

Taken from Chenneville

Answer 10

Confidentiality?

Question 11

Chenneville: Decision Making Model used for the HIV dilemma

Answer 11

Step 1: determine if disclosure is warranted
-requires assessment of forseeability of harm (p.186 for list of questions to assess this)
-Identifiability of the victim
Step 2: Refer to professional ethics guidelines
Step 3: Refer to state guidelines
-Permissive disclosure: disclosure is allowed but not mandated
+Assess clients willingness to tell sexual partners, willingness for treatment, etc, prior to disclosing
+Disclosing should only be done if the client is unwilling to minimize the risk to others
-Required disclosure: must disclose, but should try to convince client to disclose before doing so, and should also try to get clients consent to disclose
-Mandatory confidentiality: encourage client to inform partners and work on underlying issues regarding what they don’t want to disclose