ABSTRACT

Ethics are complex, and have far-reaching implications for the practice of counselling, counselling psychology and psychotherapy. It would be ambitious, foolish and misleading to set out to provide you with ready-made solutions to the ethical issues that may confront you. Ethical dilemmas by their definition are not amenable to manualarised resolution. Rather here we set ourselves the task of making explicit a range of principles that have been asserted to underlie ethical practice and examine the fit between these principles and your own value and moral position.