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Counseling Prisoners: Ethical Issues, Dilemmas, and Cautions
Author(s) -
SCOTT NORMAN A.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1985.tb01099.x
Subject(s) - facilitator , prison , ethical issues , psychology , work (physics) , control (management) , engineering ethics , social psychology , criminology , management , mechanical engineering , engineering , economics
Counseling prisoners involves multiple ethical and therapeutic choices and risks. Prison environments emphasize external control and security. Thus, work in such settings challenges the role of the counselor as a facilitator of client responsibility for independent decision making.