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NCDA 2013 Code Of Ethics Case Study

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Scenario Provided A school counselor has reservations about providing information about military service. The father of the student client, who the counselor knows to be caring and concerned, asks the counselor about giving his child information about military service as a means to mature and live up to the child's high potential. The counselor knows the child has high potential but lacks self-discipline. The counselor tends to agree with the father but questions the military as a source of that discipline. Ethical Dilemma The dilemma in the provided scenario is the school counselor is being directed by the father of the child to push him towards the military so that the child can learn self-discipline thus, reaching his fullest potential. The …show more content…

The NCDA 2015 Code of Ethics Section B.5.b states that the career/school counselor has an obligation to inform parents about confidentiality and they will regard the diversification of the student and the family of origin (NCDA, 2016). Within the same code it states the counselor is to work with the parents to provide superior service to the client, keeping the welfare of the client as a priority (NCDA, 2016). There are several angles to consider when searching for the root cause of the child’s lack of self-discipline. Does the child have any mental, physical, emotional problems that the counselor is unaware of? We aren’t provided that information, so I assume the child does not. Some possible courses of action a counselor could take would be to provide the child with information/pamphlets about the branches of military as per the father’s request. Or the counselor could provide the military information along with information on activities such as athletics which promotes the growth of self-discipline. Dobel (2015) states that athletic endeavors such as football or basketball require self-discipline, which involves cognitive

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