Ethical Decision Making in Counselor Education in the Age of Social Media

A counseling practicum student’s use of Facebook to gain information about a client is presented as a platform for discourse on the ethical issues counselor educators face when discussing client right to privacy, virtual relationships with clients, and supervisor responsibilities with their supervisees. Using the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics (2014) and Kitchener’s (1984) foundational ethical principles, the author reveals how Forester-Miller and Davis’ ethical decision-making model (1996) was employed to resolve this ethical dilemma.