1Listen to the audio lecture while viewing these slidesPsychology 475Professional Ethics in Addictions Counseling1Professional Competence and TrainingChapter 82Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingPerspectives on Competence• One way to develop or upgrade your skills is to work with professionals who have more experience that you do.3Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingYou can learn new skills by:• Attending conferences• Taking additional courses in areas you do not know well4Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingMore ways to learn new skills:• Taking classes in theories you’re not necessarily drawn too• Participate in workshops that combine didactic work with supervised practice5Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingMaking Referrals• Counselors should know their own competence.6Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingRefer When• Working with a client is beyond your professional training• Personal factors would interfere with a productive working relationship• Value conflicts27Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingProfessional Licensing and Credentialing• Registry: a voluntary listing of individuals who use a title or provide service.8Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingAlthough licensing and certification differ in their purposes, they have some common features. Both require:• Specific requirements in terms of education and training and acceptance from practicing professionals• Testing to determine which applicants have met the standards and deserve to be granted a credential. 9Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingCertification and Licensure Defined• Certification: a voluntary attempt by a group to promote a professional identity.• Licensure: statutes determine and govern professional practice.10Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingCertification and Licensure continued• Licensure and Certification assure the public that counselors have completed minimal educational programs, and have had supervised training.11Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingArguments for and Against Professional Licensing and Credentialing12Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingIn Favor of• The public is protected by setting minimum standards of service and holding professionals accountable if they do not measure up.• The public is protected from its ignorance about services that should be provided by professional.313Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingMore in Favor of• Because insurance will pay for licensed professionals, more people should be able to get services.• Licensing allows the profession to define what it will and will not due.14Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingAgainst it• Licensing is designed to create and preserve a “union shop”.• It works as a self serving measure that creates monopolistic helping professions.15Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingMore against it•Carl Rogers –• as soon as criteria is set up for certification, the profession inevitably becomes frozen in a past image. Professionals build up a rigid bureaucracy.16Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingContinuing Education and Demonstration of Competence• Continuing education helps professionals stay on top of new developments in their area and keep their skills sharp.17Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingCounselors can do this by:• Reading books and journals• Attending workshops and conventions• Giving presentations18Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingMore things counselors can do:• Participate in peer consultation groups• Continue to grow professionally and personally419Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingReview, Consultation, and Supervision by Peers• Peer Review: an organized system by which practitioners within a profession assess one another’s services.20Psyc 475 – Professional Ethics in Addictions CounselingReview, Consultation, and Supervision by Peers continued• Peer-consultation groups: fosters the development of skills, conceptual growth, participation, instructive feedback, and