Title: Core Values of Counseling
Headings: Core Values of Counseling
Disciplines and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences
Core Values of Counseling
Counselors shall:

Content: Partnership. A counselor has to foster partnerships with the various disciplines that come together to support an integrated healing that encompasses various aspects such as the physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual. These relationships should be of integrity, sensitivity, and openness to ensure health, healing, and growth of clients. Autonomy. This entails respect for confidentiality and trust in a relationship of counseling and ensuring a safe environment that is needed for healing. It also means that healing or any advice cannot be imposed on a client. Responsible caring. This primarily means respecting the potential of every human being to change and to continue learning throughout his/her life, and especially in the environment of counseling. Personal integrity. Counselors must reflect personal integrity, honesty, and truthfulness with clients.