Legal And Ethical Issues In Counseling Essay
1. According to the text, describe and discuss the unique considerations you may have to undertake as a counselor when working with the elderly client and how you would handle them.
According to the text, the following are suggestions in offering mental health services to the elderly:
A, Counselor shall have proper skills and training in counseling adults. Counselor shall assess their own attitude about quality of life.
B, Be knowledge about the legal and ethical issues that may rise when working with the elderly; example, competency issues.
C, Determine reason for evaluation and the social facets related to the issues such as, recent losses, financial stressors and family matters.
D, Show the elderly respect and give them as much as autonomy as much as possible, regardless of mental health status.
I am currently a secondary …show more content…
Being tolerance not only working with the client, but the time it take for me or a counselor to solicit valuable information requested, and the manner in which information is used to assist the patient. Me personally I always want to make my grandmother (or prospective client) feel valued early on by actively seeking input. Usually it is helpful for me to begin the process by encouraging my grandma (with my facilitation) to prepare a list of background information, issues and concerns, questions, and any other information that would be helpful for her us when requested by our partnership (primary caregiver, doctor, nurse, etc.) Once the information has been attained, we then make sure the information is to be used effectively (financial concern), modify is necessary and or ask our partnership for recommendations.
2. Identify and describe some of the unique counseling considerations you may have to undertake when working with a person who identifies as LGBT, but feels they have been discriminated against and how you would handle them.
Considerations I want to include when working with LGBT
According to the text, the following are suggestions in offering mental health services to the elderly:
A, Counselor shall have proper skills and training in counseling adults. Counselor shall assess their own attitude about quality of life.
B, Be knowledge about the legal and ethical issues that may rise when working with the elderly; example, competency issues.
C, Determine reason for evaluation and the social facets related to the issues such as, recent losses, financial stressors and family matters.
D, Show the elderly respect and give them as much as autonomy as much as possible, regardless of mental health status.
I am currently a secondary …show more content…
Being tolerance not only working with the client, but the time it take for me or a counselor to solicit valuable information requested, and the manner in which information is used to assist the patient. Me personally I always want to make my grandmother (or prospective client) feel valued early on by actively seeking input. Usually it is helpful for me to begin the process by encouraging my grandma (with my facilitation) to prepare a list of background information, issues and concerns, questions, and any other information that would be helpful for her us when requested by our partnership (primary caregiver, doctor, nurse, etc.) Once the information has been attained, we then make sure the information is to be used effectively (financial concern), modify is necessary and or ask our partnership for recommendations.
2. Identify and describe some of the unique counseling considerations you may have to undertake when working with a person who identifies as LGBT, but feels they have been discriminated against and how you would handle them.
Considerations I want to include when working with LGBT