May 20, 2024  
2023-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2025 Graduate Catalog
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PSYC 507 - Legal and Ethical Issues for the Professional Counselor


3 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to prepare graduate students to develop ethical reasoning capabilities to resolve ethical dilemmas that they are likely to encounter in counseling, psychology and specialty practices (e.g., rehabilitation counseling, mental health counseling, alcohol and substance abuse counseling, marriage and family counseling, group counseling, supervision, consultation and research). Students are afforded opportunities to: (1) utilize self-assessment tools to clarify value systems; (2) analyze the influence of basic principles underlying ethical standards of behavior; (3) assess codes of ethics as content guide; and (4) utilize a systematic decision-making model as a mechanism for resolving ethical dilemmas.



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