Issue
Parental
Abuse
ACA
Silent
Report abuse within 72 hours
ASCA
Report abuse within 72 hours
AACC
1-433 Special Guidelines When Violence is Threatened Against
Others Action to protect third persons from client violence may
involve or require disclosure of imminent harm to the intended
victim, to their family or close friends, and to law enforcement.
When child abuse or elder abuse or abuse of dependent adults
exists, as defined by state law, Christian counselors shall report to
child or elder protective services, or to any designated agency
established for protective services. We shall also attempt to
defuse the situation and/or take preventive action by whatever
means are available and appropriate.
When the client threat is serious but not imminent, the Christian
counselor shall take preventive clinical action that seeks to
forestall any further escalation of threat toward violent behavior.
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A.4. Imposing Values
C.5. Counselors do not condone
or engage in discrimination based
on sexual orientation
1-126 Application to Homosexual and Transgendered
Behavior
Christian counselors refuse to condone or advocate for
the pursuit of or active involvement in homosexual,
transgendered, and cross-dressing behavior, and in the adoption
gay & lesbian & transgendered lifestyles by clients. We may
agree to and support the wish to work out issues of homosexual
and transgendered identity and attractions, but will refuse to
describe or reduce human identity and nature to sexual reference
or orientation, and will encourage sexual celibacy or biblically
proscribed sexual behavior while such issues are being addressed.
Christian counselors differ, on biblical, ethical, and legal
grounds, with groups who abhor and condemn reparative therapy,
willingly offering it to those who come into counseling with a
genuine desire to be set free of homosexual attractions and leave
homosexual behavior and lifestyles behind. Either goal of
heterosexual relations and marriage or lifelong sexual celibacy is
legitimate and a function of client choice in reparative therapy.
It is acknowledged that some persons engaged in samesex change or reparative therapy will be able to change and
become free of all homo-erotic behavior and attraction, some will
change but will still struggle with homosexual attraction from
time to time, and some will not change away from homosexual
practices.
Bullying
Silent
Suicide
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b. Inform appropriate officials, in
accordance with school policy, of
conditions that may be potentially
disruptive or damaging to the
school’s mission, personnel and
property while honoring the
confidentiality between the
student and the school counselor.
• Each person has the right to feel (1) Silent…Mission goal promote the welfare and protect the
dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, families,
safe in school environments that
groups, churches, schools, agencies, ministries, and other
school counselors help create,
organizations with whom Christian counselors work;
free from abuse, bullying, neglect,
harassment or other forms of
violence
1-430 Protecting Persons from Deadly Harm: The Rule of
Duty to warn Erford p. 81
Mandatory Disclosure
Christian counselors accept the limits of confidentiality
A.7. Danger to Self or Others
when
human
life is imperiled or abused. We will take appropriate
Professional school counselors:
action,
including
necessary disclosures of confidential
a. Inform parents/guardians
information,
to
protect
life in the face of client threats of suicide,
and/or appropriate authorities
homicide,
and/or
the
abuse
of children, elders, and dependent
when a student poses a danger to
persons.
self or others. This is to be done
1-431 The Duty to Protect Others
after careful deliberation and
The duty to take protective action is triggered when the
consultation with other
counselor (1) has reasonable suspicion, as stated in your state
counseling professionals.
statute, that a minor child (under 18 years), elder person (65 years
b. Report risk assessments to
and older), or dependent adult (regardless of age) has been
parents when they underscore
harmed by the client; or (2) has direct client admissions of
the need to act on behalf of a
serious and imminent suicidal threats; or (3) has direct client
child at risk; never negate a risk
admissions of harmful acts or threatened action that is serious,
of harm as students sometimes
imminent, and attainable against a clearly identified third person
or group of persons.
deceive in order to avoid further
1-432 Guidelines to Ethical Disclosure and Protective
scrutiny and/or parental
Action
notification.
Action to protect life, whether you’re a client or a thirdperson, shall be that which is reasonably necessary to stop or
forestall deadly or harmful action in the present situation. This
could involve hospitalizing the client, intensifying clinical
intervention to the degree necessary to reasonably protect against
harmful action, consultation and referral with other professionals,
or disclosure of harm or threats to law enforcement, protective
services, identifiable third-persons, and/or family members able
to help with protective action.
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tiality
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consent
A.2.d. Inability to Give Consent
B.5.a. Responsibility to Clients
When counseling minor clients or
adult clients who lack the capacity
togive voluntary, informed consent,
counselors protect the
confidentiality
of information received in the
counseling relationship as specified
by
federal and state laws, written
policies,
and applicable ethical standards.
B.5.c. Release of Confidential
Information
…
seek permission from an
appropriate
third party to disclose information.
..and take culturally
appropriate measures to safeguard
client confidentiality.
B.5.b. Responsibility to Parents and
Legal Guardians
Counselors inform parents and
legal guardians about the role of
counselors and the confidential
Major
responsi
bility
b. Are concerned with the
educational, academic, career,
personal and social needs
d. Recognize their primary
obligation for confidentiality is to
the
students
None
but balance that obligation with
an understanding of
parents’/guardians’ legal and
inherent rights to be the guiding
voice in
Parental b/c susan is a minor
1-320 Consent for the Structure and Process of Counseling
Christian counselors respect the need for informed
consent regarding the structure and process of counseling. Early
in counseling, counselor and client should discuss and agree upon
these issues; confidentiality and its limits 1-410 Maintaining
Client Confidentiality
Christian counselors maintain client confidentiality to the
fullest extent allowed by law,
Minor
age
nature of
the counseling relationship. …
respect the inherent
rights and responsibilities of
parents/guardians over the welfare
of their children/charges according
to law. Counselors work to
establish,
as appropriate, collaborative
relationships
with parents/guardians to
best serve clients.
A.2.d. Inability to Give Consent
When counseling minors or
persons
unable to give voluntary consent,
counselors seek the assent of
clients to services,and include them
in decisionmaking as appropriate.
Counselors recognize the need to
balance the ethical rights of clients
to make choices,their capacity to
give consent or assentto receive
services, and parental or familial
legal rights and responsibilities
to protect these clients and make
decisions on their behalf.
their children’s lives, especially in
value-laden issues. Though
Promote the autonomy and
independence of students to the
extent possible
1-321 Consent from Parent or Client Representative
Christian counselors obtain consent from parents or the
client's legally authorized representative when clients are minors
or adults who are legally incapable of giving consent.
1-322 Documentation of Consent
Christian counselors will document client consent in
writing by professional service contract or consent form, the
standard now required in most professional therapy relations, or
by case note at the very least.