Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (with InfoTrac) [Paperback]

Gerald Corey (Author), Marianne Schneider Corey (Author), Patrick Callanan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 053435615X | ISBN-13: 978-0534356156 | Publication Date: February 12, 2002 | Edition: 6

Up-to-date and challenging, this best-selling text is a practical manual that helps future and current professionals deal with ethical issues that they will confront at the various stages in their development. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. They raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views on these issues, discuss their position, and provide readers with many opportunities to refine their own thinking and to actively develop their own position. The authors explore such questions as: What role do the therapist's personal values play in the counseling relationship? What ethical responsibilities and rights do clients and therapists have? What considerations are involved in adapting counseling practice to diverse client populations?

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About the Author

Gerald Corey is professor emeritus of Human Services and Counseling at California State University at Fullerton and a licensed psychologist. While teaching at CSU Fullerton, he served as the coordinator of the Human Services department for nine years and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses focused on counseling. He currently teaches courses for CSU Fullerton and Loma Linda University on a part-time basis. With his colleagues, he has conducted workshops in various countries including the United States, with a special focus on training for group counseling. He is a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology, a National Certified Counselor, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Counseling Psychology), a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work, and a Fellow of the American Counseling Association.

Marianne Schneider Corey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and is a National Certified Counselor and a Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Marianne has been actively involved in providing training and supervision workshops in group process for human-services students and professionals. She facilitates self-exploration groups for graduate students and continues to conduct training workshops in group counseling with Jerry is various countries. Both Marianne and Jerry were the recipients of the Eminent Career Award (for distinguished and major contributions to the field of group work) by the Association for Specialists in Group Work (March, 2001).

Patrick Callanan is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in Santa Ana, California and is a National Certified Counselor. In his private practice he works with individuals, couples, and families. Patrick is on the part-time faculty of the Human Services Program at California State University at Fullerton, where he regularly teaches the internship course. He also offers his time each year to the university to assist in training and supervising group leaders, and co-teaches an undergraduate course in ethical and professional issues.

Product Details

• Paperback: 510 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 6 edition (February 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053435615X
• ISBN-13: 978-0534356156
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #100 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Medical Ethics

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required or not, read this book!, August 23, 1998

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This review is from: Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (Paperback)

This book was required in my graduate psychology ethics course, and I found it to be extremely helpful. Covers such topics as confidentiality, multiple relationships, diversity issues, and personal values as they relate to the counseling profession. Extremely helpful were the pre-chapter self-inventories for each topic, which give you a chance to think about what is written after them from your own frame of reference. This book dealt with issues that I had never even considered before, and I consider myself to be fairly well-educated in the subject of counseling psychology. I recommend it to anyone who is in a graduate program, to undergraduates who plan to enter the field, and to anyone currently practicing who was sent out to work with little or no formal ethics training.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Ethics Text on the Market to Date, June 11, 2000

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Hugh Crethar (Stillwater, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (Paperback)

As a Counselor Educator and Counseling Psychologist, I feel that "Issues and Ethics In the Helping Professions" is one of the most nicely organized and well-written texts on counseling ethics ever written. I cannot think of another text I would choose over it to teach ethics to developing counselors. This text serves as an excellent source for the overview of ethical issues in counseling and related fields, as well as a guide to further reading. Corey, Corey, and Callanan expect readers to become involved in learning to deal with ethical and professional issues most directly influenced by the actual practice of counseling. The authors produce numerous useful examples for thought and discussion as well as well designed activities for the classroom setting. Even an instructor selects another text for her or his ethics course, the student should definitely consider purchasing this text as an ethics resource. This edition has also put more emphasis on the learning needs of School Counselors than past editions, although I hope to see it develop in this arena in the 6th edition.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Major differences between 6th and 7th Edition!, September 22, 2009

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This review is from: Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (Paperback)

My 6th Edition arrived promptly and in excellent condition. Our course instructor had compared earlier editions when new one's were available in the past and noticed little difference. So, to save money, I bought the 6th Edition rather than the 7th and quickly found that there were some substantial changes that made it difficult to do a group study. Now, I see that new copies of the latest (7th) edition are available at a lower price than new copies of the 6th. Hopes this helps someone avoid this problem.