Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Doctoral-Level Counselor Education Supervision Programs

This paper examines the nature of ethics and the processes involved in ethical decision making. The ethical decision-making model created by Corey, Corey, and Callanan is applied to multiple ethical dilemmas present in a fictional case example. Principles of the ethical-decision making model are applied to matters of counselor aggression, the breach of confidential information, counselor role transitions, mishandling of supervisee training by counseling faculty, and provision of counseling by a counselor educator to a student. A brief summary recounts the complexity and reasoning involved in deconstructing the case example’s ethical dilemmas.