Function of Counseling Is to Ensure That

¶ … function of counseling is to ensure that you provide service to a client that promotes the autonomy and development of the client which has to prioritize the relationship with in an ethical framework.as a counselor having good intentions is not just good enough as the his or her awareness of the relationship into which the client in this case George and the counselor enter together and the awareness of the impact between these two people on each other facilitates effectiveness and outcome.

There are some ethics which are associated with working with George this include respecting his rights and dignity, which implies that the counselor is supposed to honor and promote his rights, cultural values, dignity and his worth. Secondly the counselor is supposed to be competent in that they maintain their professional skills during the sessions. Third, the counselor is supposed to be aware of their professional responsibility and ensure that they act in a trustworthy, accountable and reputable manner towards the client.

Finally the counselor should ensure that they seek integrity in their practice this means that the counselor should present themselves in an accurate way and treat the client in an honest, straightforward and fair manner. As I begin working with George find that he is sullen, quiet and almost non-communicative.my ethical concern as I begin working with him is confidentiality.

I am worried of how I will build trust with George in order for him to open up and be free with me .I am worried of how I will manage to convince him that our sessions are going to be confidential since I believe that is what he is not sure about hence explaining why he is reserved (Ensign, 2009). When constructing an assessment plan I have to ensure that I put ethical responsibilities.

Some of the ethical responsibilities that I will use in constructing the plan are confidentiality in that I have to ensure that the assessment process is confidential; beneficence in that the plan should be committed to promoting the well-being of the client; Autonomy in that the assessment should respect the client's rights to be self-governing; discretion in that the assessment will employ good judgment, honoring the confidentiality and privacy of the client.

George is an elder therefore there are some unique ethical considerations that come up when working with him just like working with other elder clients populations. These ethical concerns include actual conflicts of interest in that there might be a conflict of interest between George who is an elder and me the counselor since am relatively younger compared to him.

Secondly confidentiality since as a counselor I will gather a lot of confidential information from George therefore as a counselor I owe a duty to confidentiality to George ensuring that I do not breech the confidence placed in me and disclosing information only when he consents. Another ethical concern is decision making capacity in that George might have the capacity or lack the capacity to properly participate in the decision making process (Ensign, 2009).

My initial counseling goals for George is to make him comfortable during the sessions.my second goal is to make him speak out his feelings on his wife's death.my third goal is to help him deal with his feelings and help him confront them.my final goal is to help George learn to live past his wife's death and help him go back to his normal life he was living before the death of his wife.my initial theoretical approach and treatment plan for working with George would be helping him deal with the feelings he has harbored in his heart concerning his wife's death.

This would include talking of the memories he has of his wife, talking about what he feels he is lacking as a result of the death of his wife and how best he can remember his wife in a good way and not in a way that will cause grief and pain to him. This will enable George to confront the death of his wife in a positive way and it will leave him focusing on the good things and not the sad part of the death of his wife.

The areas of assessment I would focus on initially on, his pattern of eating, his patterns of sleep and his day-to-day routine. This will be my first areas of focus for the assessment in order to establish the changes that the death of his wife has brought n his life. This will help in establishing the extent of disturbance to his life that the death of his wife has caused hence form a basis for coming up with an efficient treatment plan.

I think incorporating George's input into his treatment planning and goal setting is very important and crucial. This is because he is the one who is going through this and therefore he is the one who best understands it. As a counselor I do not know who exactly it feels to be in such a situation therefore I can not fully understand it.

However, George understands the situation and therefore he is better placed when it comes to the problem.my work as a counselor is to just help in dealing with the problem. Including his input in the treatment plan and setting of goals is important as it will help in coming up with the best solutions to the problem. This is because he is the one who is affected in the situation and thus including him in all this will mean that the treatment process will be a success.

Another reason why this is important is that George will feel that he is playing a role in his treatment. He will feel that he is part of the process and hence he will adhere to whatever I tell him and follow the instructions since he will feel he is part of the process not just as the patient but also as the one who came up with the treatment. I can entice him to become part of.