LEGAL & ETHICAL BASES OF COUNSELING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Rehabilitation Counselor Education Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify potential ethical concerns in counseling, supervision, and teaching activities Audience: Graduate 2. Apply and analyze the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification’s (CRCC) code of ethics, the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Ethics Code for counselors, and the relevance of ethics codes to ethical decision making and practice Audience: Graduate 3. Integrate legal considerations related to professional practice into their ethical decision-making Audience: Graduate 4. Apply knowledge about statutes and legal issues pertinent to rehabilitation counseling professionals and counseling practice Audience: Graduate 5. Summarize the nature of an ethical issue/dilemma through ethics awareness Audience: Graduate 6. Apply an ethical decision making model for case analysis using relevant law, regulations, policies, codes, values and principles to develop options/plans of action to address identified ethical issues Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify potential ethical concerns in counseling, supervision, and teaching activities Audience: Graduate 2. Apply and analyze the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification’s (CRCC) code of ethics, the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Ethics Code for counselors, and the relevance of ethics codes to ethical decision making and practice Audience: Graduate 3. Integrate legal considerations related to professional practice into their ethical decision-making Audience: Graduate 4. Apply knowledge about statutes and legal issues pertinent to rehabilitation counseling professionals and counseling practice Audience: Graduate 5. Summarize the nature of an ethical issue/dilemma through ethics awareness Audience: Graduate 6. Apply an ethical decision making model for case analysis using relevant law, regulations, policies, codes, values and principles to develop options/plans of action to address identified ethical issues Audience: Graduate