Teaching Ethical Decision Making: Helping Students Reconcile Personal and Professional Values

Because conflicts between personal and professional values can interfere with ethical decision making, a goal of counselor education must be helping students reconcile such conflicts. This article describes one counselor educator's experience teaching ethical decision making and the effects on...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of counseling and development 2014-04, Vol.92 (2), p.154-161
Main Author: Ametrano, Irene Mass
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambiguity
Counselor client relationships
Decision making
ethical decision making
Ethics
Learning
Professional ethics
Professional values
Teaching
teaching ethics
Tolerance
value conflicts
Values
Welfare
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Because conflicts between personal and professional values can interfere with ethical decision making, a goal of counselor education must be helping students reconcile such conflicts. This article describes one counselor educator's experience teaching ethical decision making and the effects on student learning. Growth was observed in increased tolerance for ambiguity, awareness of how values influenced decision making, use of multiple factors in decision making, and emphasis on the welfare of clients. Implications for teaching and future research directions are discussed.
ISSN:0748-9633
1556-6676
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00143.x