HSV 552 - Professional and Ethical Orientation to Counseling

3 Credits

This course provides students with a realistic view of several critical issues that counselors in the field of counseling and human services encounter, in addition to providing best practices in addressing these dilemmas. Counseling and human service professionals often face ethical issues such as professionalism, aspirational ethics, decision making, mandated reporting, crisis intervention and/or legal issues daily. Professional practice in a multicultural society, client rights and responsibilities will also be explored, in addition to confidentiality, privileged communication, record keeping, and other key issues.
Prerequisites: Either (a) 21 completed hours of graduate work in the Post University Master of Science in Counseling and Human Services graduate program, or (b) a comparable number of graduate coursework hours in a helping-related program at another college or university.