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Unethical Behaviour:
Unethical behaviour can take many forms:
Violation of confidentiality
Negligent practice
Claiming expertise, one does not posses
Imposing one’s values on a client
Creating a dependency in a client
Sexual activity with client
Certain conflicts of interest
Questionable financial arrangement, such as charging excessive fees
Improper Advertising
Counselling is a process in which clients learn how to make decisions and formulate
new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Counselling deals with personal, Social, Vocational and educational concern
Counselling is conducted with those persons considered within the normal range of
functioning
Counselling is theory based and takes place in a structured setting.
Key Difference: Guidance focused on helping individuals make important choices, whereas
counselling focused on helping individuals make changes.