Joseph Adebayo Awoyemi

Ethical Code for Counseling in Education in a Multicultural Society Joseph Adebayo Awoyemi

The book is a toolkit to equip guidance Counselors in education, policy makers, educators, teachers, medics, social workers and chaplains in unleashing students and help-seeker's potential. It focuses on the character of the help-givers as they confer with learners in their life destiny. It addresses issues of confidentiality, welfare of learners and counselees, justice, multicultural diversity counseling competence, benevolence, non-Malefiscence, non omnipotence, fallibility, non-nepotism, fidelity, autonomy, walking on helpseekers, rights and dignity, pedagogical competence, self serving bias, records handling, professional competence, integrity, boundaries of relationships, truthfulness and candor, professional responsibility, social responsibility, termination and referral et cetera. The author presents life related case studies as insights into dealing with human life hurts and calls for the highest standard of reputation, conduct, study and training to be the true channels of healing to the population.