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Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action
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Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action

Sixth Edition
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July 2026 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the counselling professions. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these. An accompanying online resource website provides you with videos, book chapters and journal articles about ethical practice.

Counselling in Action is a bestselling series of practical introductions designed for trainees and practitioners. Each book introduces a theoretical approach or practice issue and provides a guide to the process of counselling. Covering theory and practice, they are trusted companions for many courses in counselling and psychotherapy and other professions such as nursing, social work and teaching.

 

  

 
Part I: Setting the Scene
 
1: Introduction
 
2: Making Sense of the Counselling Professions
 
3: Sources of Counselling Ethics
 
4: Relational Ethics in the Counselling Professions
 
Part II: Responsibilities in Practice
 
5: Safety, Negligence and Insurance
 
6. Client Autonomy
 
7. Ethical Practice and Suicide Risk
 
8. Avoiding the Exploitation of Clients
 
9. Confidentiality
 
10. Counselling in Virtual Spaces
 
11. Working within Social Diversity
 
Part III: Counsellors and responsibility to others
 
12. Bridging Ethics to Practice
 
13. Counselling Supervision
 
14. Counsellors' Broader Responsibilities
 
15. Record-keeping
 
16. Evaluating the Impact of Counselling
 
Part IV: The Whole Picture
 
17. Ethical Problem Solving
 
18. Implications for Practice

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Andrew Reeves

Andrew Reeves is an Emeritus Professor in the Counselling Professions and Mental Health and Associate Affiliate Professor at the University of Malta.  He is additionally a Senior BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist, a Registered Social Worker and a Senior Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor with EMCC. He is a past Chair of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Fellow of BACP and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. He has published extensively on working in counselling and psychotherapy, and particularly in working with risk in a range of organizational settings. He is past Editor-in-Chief of the journal... More About Author

Tim Bond

Tim Bond is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and former Visiting Professor to the University of Malta. He has a longstanding commitment to researching and writing about professional ethics for the talking therapies and promoting mental well-being. He is a former consultant to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy on professional ethics and standards. Now retired from practice he has more time to reflect on current ethical issues for counselling when not in his studio painting or undertaking moth surveys. More About Author

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