Professional Ethical Dilemma Paper

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7.1 Professional Ethics Dilemma Surya is an 18-year-old Indian American who struggles with issues of gender identity, sexuality, self-harm, self-acceptance, depression, and anxiety. Surya lives with her parents and older sister Akila in Madison, WI. Akila is still in elementary school and is very girly and feminine presenting. This is in stark contrast to Surya. Surya now attends Madison East high school after transferring from Madison West when her family moved across town. Surya is on the softball, basketball and soccer teams, along with the president of student council. Surya's father Raj is an engineer who is rarely ever home due to his high position at work. When present at home, he is usually very distant, lacks showing emotion and has …show more content…

j., this offense could also fall under multiple other categories of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. This was a huge breach of the ASCA (2016) ethical standards because appropriate boundaries were not held when the counselor engaged in a sexual relationship with a student. Responding to this ethical dilemma it is somewhat difficult because it occurred with another counselor at another school. According to the ASCA (2016) ethical standards, section E., maintenance of standards, when something occurs that a school counselor considers unethical (usually by one of their own colleagues), they should discuss the situation with appropriate colleagues and see if the other professionals view the situation as unethical. If they deem it unethical, they are then required to report the case to their district and state. Consequently, they need to speak with the actual person who committed the offense, but if the behavior was unlawful and dangerous to Surya, proper school or community authorities should be contacted instead. The resulting step if the situation is not resolved is to refer the case for examination in a specifically designed sequence according to ASCA (2016) ethical standards. The sequence is: first, the state school counselor association followed by the American School Counselor Association. Within this case you as a school counselor would follow these steps and ensure proper action was taken to ensure Surya was safe and taken care of and …show more content…

Additionally, the ethical standard A.11.a. and d these standards state, the administration and suitable authorities should be notified of any incidents of bullying, dating violence, and sexual harassment, since the vast majority of these offenses fall under breaches of Title IX or other laws that require interventions conducted by an administrator, and the student's well-being was threatened (p.

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