ABSTRACT
The importance of ethics education in counselor training has been cited by all credentialing bodies in counselor training. It is required that counseling ethics be addressed in core and specialized areas of the curricula. Codes of ethics address a broad range of behavior in counseling and psychology. Most important, they serve to educate counseling and psychology practitioners about the responsibilities inherent in their professional practice and serve to protect clients from unethical practices. Seligman (2004) suggested that having knowledge of and familiarity with those ethical standards, and abiding by them, is essential to sound clinical practice. The many reasons include the following:
n Ethical standards give strength and credibility to the mental health profession. Ethical guidelines help clinicians make sound decisions.
