ethical dilemma – Iain Douglas Stewart

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 25th June 2020

By Iain 25 June 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

So that’s that then. Last night I got an email from the college saying that our internal and external assessments have been submitted to the CPCAB for a calculated grade. Our tutor had already told us that we would all pass. Now that our final grade is being calculated, between a pass and a fail, there is no need to…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 22nd May 2020

By Iain 22 May 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Ethics in counselling are very important. I will be using the BACP’s Ethical Framework as contextual guidance to explore these hypothetical Ethical dilemmas. A client has been in counselling for a year and has made great progress. She brings in an expensive gift for you. She knows that this is something that you would like, and she knows that you…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 6th June 2018

By Iain 6 June 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Last week we were given the task to find an article or a problem from a problem page and have a think about how it affected us emotionally and physically. This week we discussed the articles we had chosen, and I felt I chose wrong, as I chose an article that didn’t really affect me at all. So I am…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 9th May 2018

By Iain 9 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were looking at Ethics in counselling. Our tutor gave us some “Counsellor’s Ethical Dilemmas” to unpick and suggested we use the BACP’s Ethical framework to aid us. That is what it is there for, after all. The first ethical dilemma was that we had been working with a client for three sessions and we discover that our…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 2nd May 2018

By Iain 2 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were exploring the features of safe practise. My own personal definitions of the four terms we were asked to define are as follows: Ethical – Ethics are personal values that define how a person lives and behaves. In relation to counselling, I see ethics as a matrix for enabling a counsellor to make difficult choices in the…

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 2nd May 2018

By Iain 2 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were exploring the features of safe practise, using the BACP’s Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. The BACP’s Ethical framework is necessary to maintain the integrity of the counselling and psychotherapy professions. Everything in the framework protects the entirety of both the client and practitioner, and allows the provision of a safe working environment in which the…

“The Mission” begins anew every day

By Iain 8 February 2018The MissionNo Comments

"The Mission" began in February 2017 when I committed myself to eternal self-improvement. Every day I must improve my life or the life of someone around me. I gave a work colleague my old copy of Allen Carr's "EasyWay to Stop Smoking", it worked for me, I hope it works for her. She had a health scare recently, and despite…