Counseling involves a trained professional meeting with an individual, couple, or family to discuss issues and problems. Counseling has several ethical principles to guide the process and protect both the client and counselor. These principles include commitment, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, fidelity, self-respect, autonomy, confidentiality, and integrity. The counselor's role is to use scientific methods and techniques to build a trusting relationship and help clients understand and solve problems. Counselors have responsibilities to their clients, society, and themselves to provide fair, impartial services and maintain competency and standards of performance.

1. COUNSELING

2. What is counseling?
 It is a process where an individual,
couple or family meet with a
trained professional counselor to
talk about issues and problems that
they are facing in their lives.

3. What is ethical principles?
Ethical principles are the principles
which guides us to tell the truth, keep
our promises, or help someone in need.

4. •It provide safety for both client and counselor
•Overall guide for counseling
•It will not harm
•Help to accept unfortunate events

5. Commitment
Justice
beneficence
Non maleficence
 fidelity
Self respect
Autonomy
Confidentiality
Moral guiding
Trustworthy
Patience
Integrity
Professional responsibility

6. Use scientific methods
Techniques
Experiments
competence

7. Trustworth realtionship
Fundamental to understand and solve the
probelm

8. To client
To society- quality of service, code of conduct
To himself- standard of perfomance, competance

9. provide fairs, impartial and adequate service
 just and equal to all (gender,cultural etc..)
Opposite all kind of discrmination

10. Commitment to promoting the client's well being
act in the best interest of the client
provide service based on training experience

11. commitment to avoiding harm to the client
avoid sexual, financial and emotional, etc…
Avoid discriminations and exploitations

12. oTo client
oHimself
osociety

13. foster the self-knowledge
 care for self
keep update on training
active encouragement in life enhancing
activities
 relationship

14. effort to foster autonomy of client
Respect client
respect for the client's right to self
governing
encourage clients independent
thinking and decision making

15. Respect the privacy of the clients
The confidentiality of information
Legal duty of the counsellor not to disclose the
information

16. Foster morality
Helping in moral dilemmas
Speak importance of moral principles

17. Take time to listen
Acecept situation
Client may take time to change feelings
negative to positive

18. Be honest (your self,profession)
Provide 100% service