This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the counselling professions. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these. An accompanying online resource website provides you with videos, book chapters and journal articles about ethical practice. Counselling in Action is a bestselling series of practical introductions designed for trainees and practitioners. Each book introduces a theoretical approach or practice issue and provides a guide to the process of counselling. Covering theory and practice, they are trusted companions for many courses in counselling and psychotherapy and other professions such as nursing, social work and teaching.