Describe how your state’s legal standards help guide counselors to establish ethical relationships with clients and students through specific requirements (for example, informed consent, managing boundaries, and payment for services).

Describe how your state’s legal standards help guide counselors to establish ethical relationships with clients and students through specific requirements (for example, informed consent, managing boundaries, and payment for services).
Explore ethical and legal documentation protocol for both written and when technology is used. Consider security concerns and steps a counselor must take to safeguard client’s privacy.

Slide Four:
Explore ethical codes/standards and state statutes which need to be considered for guiding the counselor providing distance counseling to their clients/students. Something to consider will be changes (permanent and temporary) implemented due to COVID-19. MHC learners will also want to consider implications to billing, if any. SC learners may find benefit in identifying a school district as a hypothetical site of practice to help guide with department of education and school district policy. (Distance counseling can also be referred to telemental health.)

Slide Five:
Describe how you would account for diverse populations when offering clients/students distance counseling services. Remember that clients are not all equipped to understand the jargon of the counseling profession.

Slide Six: Case Application 1.
Ethical codes and standards (included in ACA, AMHCA, ASCA, and NBCC) help to guide the relationship between counselors and clients/students. Review the case examples below and describe specific ethical codes/standards and any relevant legal standards that guide counselors in your specialization to manage the relationship for the appropriate scenario below:

School Counseling learners, address the following: Your school is establishing a new page on the school website to combat cyber-bullying. In addition to educational materials, a staff member proposes that there will be a link to open a chatbox that the school counselors will monitor. You recognize that this unsecured mode of communication will pose many ethical challenges. Explain this to the principal and explain how another option, such as secure email, may be more appropriate.
Slide Seven: Case Application 2.
Ethical codes and standards (included in ACA, AMHCA, ASCA, and NBCC) help to guide the relationship between counselors and clients/students. Review the case examples below and describe specific ethical codes/standards and any relevant legal standards that guide counselors in your specialization to manage the relationship for the appropriate scenario below:

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