Discuss the issues of divided loyalties as an ethical dilemma for counselors. How will you resolve this issue in your future practice? According to (Jeffrey A, Kottler & David S. Shepard, 2015), they said that “loyalties are often among more than one person” (p.417).An example of divided loyalties is if a patient is a child and the parent disagree. The problem is going to arise because the counselor has to appease everyone. The counselor does not want the child to feel like they cannot trust their counselor, If this situation happened to me in my practice I would talk to the parents to see what their counselor was and then I would converse with the child and then many get the parent and the child together to discuss the issue.
What is the relationship between ethics and confidentiality in client relationships? Are there ethical limits to confidentiality? If so, what are they? Should clients be routinely advised of these limits? …show more content…
However, there are some exceptions. For example, if the patient tells the counselor he is going to kill his family then the counselor has to report this situation because of he or she does not and the situation transpires then the counselor is going to be at fault. I think that the counselor should tell the patients about the expectations of confidently because a counselor does not want the client confused. According to (Jeffrey A. Kottler and David S, Shepard 2015), “the counselor need to make it clear to the patient about the confidentiality agreement()