bacp : ethical framework
 
   
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Values of counselling and psychotherapy  

Values of counselling and psychotherapy

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The fundamental values of counselling and psychotherapy include a commitment to:

  • Respecting human rights and dignity
  • Protecting the safety of clients
  • Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client relationships
  • Enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application
  • Alleviating personal distress and suffering
  • Fostering a sense of self that is meaningful to the person(s) concerned
  • Increasing personal effectiveness
  • Enhancing the quality of relationships between people
  • Appreciating the variety of human experience and culture
  • Striving for the fair and adequate provision of counselling and psychotherapy services


Values inform principles. They represent an important way of expressing a general ethical commitment
that becomes more precisely defined and action-orientated when expressed as a principle.

 
   
       
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