hello this is dr. Hughes and this short video I'm going to go over the 2014 ACA code of ethics I'm not going to read up to you word for word because you can do that I'm just gonna go over it so that I can help familiarize you with the document what we'll be doing throughout the course is going through each of the standards so the textbook we're using the rimmel e'en Herlihy text it really breaks down each standard in each chapter so we're gonna go be going over this in depth but you do need to become familiar with the code of ethics I've had students ask me in that past how they are supposed to remember all the ethical codes you can't they're all the ethical standards you can't remember them it is helpful however to be familiar with the code of ethics so that you can look them up when you need them this is something you might have on hand in your office and again if you if you are facing something that you feel like might be an ethical dilemma then you can refer to the code alright and so this one this is a fairly long document this right here is the table of contents and you'll see it's separated into different sections and the preamble they talk about those moral principles that we talked about talked about in lecture two and then the purpose of the code and then you can see it's broken down into sections and then standards within the sections and then it goes into detail within each of the standards so this this code of ethics is very detailed and so here's the first section the counseling relationship and this just talks about what your responsibility is as a counselor what your clients rights are and it talks about appropriate relationships and boundaries Section B refers to confidentiality and privacy so it talks about confidentiality when you can break confidentiality and so on it also goes into record-keeping and consultation Section C talks about your professional responsibilities so it talks about competence here it is your responsibility to become competent to counsel most clients although you may find yourself specializing with intuit with certain populations or certain types of counseling in which case you wouldn't necessarily have to counsel everyone and section D goes into relationships with other professionals talks about consultation and supervision a little bit section e looks at evaluation and assessment and interpretation of those assessments it also talks about diagnosis here down to section F this really goes into detail with supervision and training and teaching this may not be relevant to you as you start off but you may find yourself later on in your in your career moving into more of a supervisory role in which case you're still obligated to follow the code of ethics so just because you don't know that there's a standard related to something doesn't mean you're not still obligated to follow it and research and publication and begin this may not be something super relevant to you as you start off but it will be or it may be later on and section H is where we see this is a new addition to the 2014 code where it goes into detail the distance to counseling technology and social media and it gives some guidelines for social media use appropriate use as a as a counselor and section I looks at resolving ethical issues here's your glossary of terms at the end and an index as well it'll help you navigate so yeah that's the code of ethics like I said it is a fairly lengthy document you're certainly not going to be able to know everything but it's important to be familiar with this that you can flip through easily whenever you need it