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Submitted by jaimejwilson on April 8, 2006
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Ethics counseling is an amorphous activity. It is difficult to clearly define ethics counseling because it takes on so many different forms. Ethics counselors are all around us; they are not necessarily those who have a master degree in ethics or a label' that defines them as being an ethics counselor. We are all ethics counselors in some form or another. Everyone has used the principles of ethics counseling to provide guidance for people to make difficult ethical decisions. Everyday people go to their friends and family in search of this ethical guidance: a child asks his mother what to do about a teacher who marks his or her assignments with lower grade than the rest of his Caucasian peers; a husband asks a friend what to do about that sexually aggressive female colleague. These are just some of the many forms which ethics counseling takes on in everyday life (micro ethics). Ethical counseling also exists in another more formal settings: in hospitals, corporations (meso ethics) and larger governmental institutions (macro ethics). Due to the imprecision and vagueness of the notion of ethics that it serves, and to the variability that results from tailoring its practice, ethics counseling still remains a very nebulous concept. I hope to demonstrate however, that the true power inherent in ethics counseling (both in an unprofessional and professional setting) is this very mysterious, indefinable and unspeakable quality. Furthermore this paper will illuminate some of the key characteristics and qualities of the counselor of ethics, as well as examine some potential ethics counseling methodologies. Importance will be placed on an integral approach to ethics counseling (combining the it', the I' and the we) in all the aforementioned areas. Overall this paper will be representative of my interpretation of ethics counseling.
In one of the first lectures that Dr. Dollin gave in September 2005 he said that ethics counseling has to do with the "human...
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