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Social‐Cognitive Development, Ethical and Legal Knowledge, and Ethical Decision Making of Counselor Education Students
Author(s) -
Lambie Glenn W.,
Hagedorn W. Bryce,
Ieva Kara P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2010.tb00100.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , maturity (psychological) , ethical decision , engineering ethics , ethical issues , medical education , social psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , engineering
Counselors are required to have high levels of social‐cognitive development, significant knowledge regarding ethical and legal practice, and sound ethical decision‐making processes to provide effective and ethical services to their clients. This study investigated the effect of two counseling ethics courses on 64 master's‐level counselor education students' levels of social‐cognitive development, ethical and legal knowledge, and ethical decision making. Students' ethical and legal knowledge scores increased significantly, and precourse social‐cognitive maturity predicted postcourse ethical and legal knowledge scores. Implications for counselor education and development are discussed.