According to Serrat (2009), this appreciation goes a long way in educating people more about contentious subjects and issues.
By listening to other ideas as well as criticizing them positively, we get to see the point of contention in the differences we have and may even get to realize that we were actually wrong on our approach.
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Group Counseling presents a counselor with a myriad of ethical challenges that may hinder effective counseling. Primarily, it is apparent that ethical consideration in selecting group members for a specific session is a challenge.
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In a group context, clients are active participants and are able to choose from a wide array of counseling approaches to use during the process.
Although the right to participation is an important aspect, group counselors are aware of ethical issues that may arise during counseling.
Such issues as coercing members to participate during group sessions and members to quit the counseling process are addressed ethically through informed consent (Markus, H., & King, D. (2003).
Corey& Corey (2006) postulates that counselors must ensure that all clients in a group participate in the therapy process with a well - informed consent.
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Confidentiality remains a huge impediment during group counseling. By encouraging individuals to share information freely amongst them, some members still experience anxiety about the reaction of the rest upon accessing the information.
Although the participants are well aware of the repercussions of exceeding the confidentiality limits, it is a hard task for the counselor to follow up on all members. As such, there is a huge challenge to ensure that the members keep the information privileged and confidential.
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Counseling is an important psychological process where individuals experience internal healing and consequently become reintegrated into mainstream society after suffering from a traumatizing occurrence.
It entails both individual and group counseling owing to the varied needs of patients as well as the ethics associated with the two.
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Child protection work and services involve a set of services by a government whose provision enhances the positive development of the underage and vulnerable children in the context of the family and community (AIHW, 2011).
It focuses on the child by addressing all factors within the family that predispose a child to neglect and abuse.
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The government strategy for the Child Protection needs appraising as the current methods of data collection and reporting standards.
The continued use of quantitative reports on the well-being of the children by social workers strips a handsome amount of time to protect the child whereby they use much of the time in filling a lot of paperwork.
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Australian child protection policy has continuously developed over time to focus on the family as a bridge in enhancing the protection of a child.
Building capacity to improve family relationships through counseling the parents, providing support services in addition to improving the environment of the child at home are among the strategies that the government has put in place.
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The results in the first section of the Pre Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment Online Library “What about me?" gave me very reliable insights into my motivation, personality, attitudes, and values (Pearson Education, 2008). Under my Basic Personality assessment, my highest score was for being an extrovert. I got the lowest for openness to experience (Pearson Education, 2008, I.A.1).
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Emotions are a result of the physiological changes rather than their cause. Human beings have got different reactions to different events that they experience in their lives. The autonomic nervous system in the human body comes up with these responses according to what is stimulated in the body by the external environment (Brown, 2010).
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