Ethical Issues in Counseling: Confidentiality According to the Code of Ethics of the American Mental Health Counselors Association (2000) the following principle on confidentiality applies: At the beginning of any counseling relationship, mental confidentiality health counselors make their clients aware of their rights regarding the confidential nature of the counseling relationship. “They fully disclose the limitations or exceptions to confidentiality and/or the existence of privileged communications, if any. (Corey, Schneider & Callanan, 2011) This previous paragraph that clearly states what our ethical approach to confidentiality should be is found in section 3.a of the AMHCA Code of Ethics. This article starts with this one that is probably confusing to others but is powerful for professional counselors, because it talks about one of the most common ethical issues in the counseling profession and which we will talk about in more depth here. Confidentiality has been a huge problem issue not only in the consulting area but in many others, such as education and business among many others. An example would be that of companies, banks, whose number one policy, in addition to customer experience, is to protect customer privacy and confidentiality, continue to maintain the bank-customer relationship and carry out the customer's business with They. When you walk into a bank that wants to process a transaction where you need to disclose information, the first thing they do is ask for a method of identification (driver's license, ID card, passport, etc.) and the reason is that they cannot disclose any information to anyone except the person who owns the account, why?, to protect their privacy and confidential information. Just as in a bank there are employees... middle of paper... everyone who thinks like this will quickly learn that things don't work like that in schools. ReferencesCohen, E.D. (1990). Confidentiality, counseling, and clients with AIDS: Ethical foundations of a model rule. Journal of Counseling and Development, 68(3), 282.Gray, L.A., & Harding, A.K. (1988). Limits of confidentiality with clients who have AIDS. Journal of Counseling and Development, 66(5), 219.Huss, S., Mulet, S. (2008). parents. Professional School Counseling, 11(6), 362,367.Bodenhorn, N. (2006).Exploratory study of common and challenging ethical dilemmas experienced by professional school counselors, 10(2), 195-202 .Corey, G., Schneider. and Callanan, P. (2011) Issues and ethics in the helping professions.