TPC Journal V7, Issue 2 - FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 2 189 individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals” (p. 3). Additionally, this hallmark is found in one standard each in the Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice , Social and Cultural Diversity , Human Growth and Development , and Career Development sections of the 2016 CACREP Standards. Lastly, this hallmark is tested in the NCE under Counseling Process (assessing one’s appropriateness for working with a specific client, consulting with client’s support system, consult with school staff, determining need for referral for other services, facilitating client access to community resources, helping client develop support systems, identifying client concerns, identifying client’s support system, providing adequate accommodations for clients with disabilities, providing client follow-up, and triage clients for service), Diagnostic and Assessment Services (assessing potential for harm to self and others, conducting functional behavioral analysis, and using test results to facilitate client decision making), Professional Practice (applying multicultural counseling models, reporting abuse to the proper authorities, and supervising contact/visitation between family members), and Professional Development, Supervision, and Consultation (consult with justice system, consult with prescribers about medication, maintain appropriate boundaries, monitor and address personal compassion fatigue, monitor personal strengths and limitations, and monitor self-reflective versus self-absorbed states of mind; NBCC, 2014b). In comparison, the NASW Code of Ethics (2008) states that “Social workers seek to strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities” (Ethical Principles Section). Counselors promote wellness in both the client (individual, couple or family) and the counselor while social workers focus on wellness with the client and local to global societies. Lastly, APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010) indicates: “In their professional actions, psychologists seek to safeguard the welfare and rights of those with whom they interact professionally and other affected persons, and the welfare of animal subjects of research” (p. 3). In psychology, the wellness of the client is safeguarded by the psychologist. Lastly, empowerment occurs when counselors encourage client autonomy, self-advocacy, self- validation and self-determination (Erford, 2013). This hallmark can be found in the Preamble and A.1.d of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014). The Preamble states the following as a core professional value: “honoring diversity and embracing a multicultural approach in support of the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural contexts; promoting social justice” (p. 3). Additionally, this hallmark is found in several 2016 CACREP Standards: five standards in the Social and Cultural Diversity section, three standards in the Human Growth and Development section, seven standards in the Career Development section, four standards in the Counseling and Helping Relationships section, and one standard in the Assessment and Testing section. Lastly, this hallmark is tested in the NCE under Counseling Process (exploring cultural values and mores, facilitating client access to community resource, facilitating conflict resolution, facilitating interpersonal feedback, helping the client develop support systems, identifying barriers affecting client goal attainment, identifying client concerns, identifying the client’s support system, obtaining informed consent, providing adequate accommodations for clients with disabilities, and providing counseling services in the client’s preferred language), Diagnostic and Assessment Services (implementing tests for client decision making and using test results to facilitate client decision making), Professional Practice (advocating for client needs, applying multicultural counseling models, developing referral sources, empowering clients, collaborative goal setting, and decision-making skills), and Professional Development, Supervision, and Consultation (consult with justice system, consult with prescribers about medication, consult with school staff, and maintain appropriate boundaries; NBCC, 2014b).