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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 9th Edition

by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey, and Patrick Callanan

with Michelle Muratori, Johns Hopkins University

Professional Competence and Training

Chapter 8

Perspectives on Competence

Professional codes of ethics on competence have common themes.

Counselors practice only within the boundaries of competence, based on:

Education

Training

Supervised experience

State and national professional credentials

Appropriate professional experience

Assessment of Competence

Assessment approaches are most effective when they integrate both formative and summative evaluations.

Formative assessment is a developmentally informed process that provides useful feedback during one’s training and throughout one’s professional career.

Assessment of Competence

Summative assessment is an end point evaluation typically completed at the end of a professional program or when applying for licensure status.

Developing or Upgrading Skills

Work with colleagues or professionals who have more experience.

Seek consultation before moving outside areas in which you have received education and training.

Learn new skills by attending conferences, reading professional articles, taking courses, and participating in workshops.

Making Referrals

You may need to refer a client if the resources are limited in the setting in which you work.

You may also need to refer a client if the boundaries of your professional role restrict you from delivering the services your client needs.

Making Referrals

Referring a client because of a conflict with your value system is not an ethically acceptable reason for a referral.

Consider a referral as a final intervention after you have exhausted other interventions including consulting.

Ethical Issues in Training Therapists

Training programs have an ethical responsibility to:

Establish clear selection criteria

Provide exposure to major contemporary counseling theories

Teach students strengths and limitations of theories

Combine academic and personal learning

Ethical Issues in Training Therapists

Training programs have an ethical responsibility to:

Screen candidates to protect public from incompetent practitioners

Teach a range of skills to work with diverse clients

Provide training in ethics

Evaluating Character and Psychological Fitness of Trainees

Interpersonal behaviors of trainees have a direct bearing on their clinical effectiveness, so these factors must be taken into consideration in the evaluation process.

Evaluating Character and Psychological Fitness of Trainees

Character:

The honesty and integrity with which a person deals with others

Psychological fitness:

The emotional or mental stability necessary to practice safely and effectively

Evidenced by the presence of personality adjustment, absence of psychological disorder, and appropriate use of substances

Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence

The academic faculty in a professional program generally has a gatekeeper’s role, protecting consumers by identifying and intervening with graduate students who exhibit problematic behaviors.

The gatekeeper role is addressed in the ethics codes of most professional organizations.

Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence

When a student has good grades but demonstrates substandard interpersonal behavior, indicating serious unresolved conflicts, action needs to be taken.

Gatekeeper Role of Faculty in Promoting Competence

Well-designed gatekeeping procedures appear to improve the effectiveness with which deficient students are identified and prevented from progressing unremediated into the counseling profession.

Dismissal from a program is a measure of last resort.

Certification and Licensure

Certification

Voluntary attempt by a group to promote professional identity

Attempts to verify qualifications

Sets minimum standards

Does not assure quality practice

Certification and Licensure

Licensure

Governs professional practice

Highlights uniqueness of an occupation

Restricts both use of title and practice of occupation