Intercultural Model of Ethical Decision Making: Addressing Worldview Dilemmas in School Counseling

Abstract

The role of school counselors has expanded and deepened over the past few decades, just as the K-12 student population has become more diversified. Professional school counselors regularly encounter ethical dilemmas related to the intersection of their transformed role and students' needs. School counselors, therefore, need assistance and support to develop the skills and problem-solving strategies to effectively, ethically, and respectfully negotiate these dilemmas. The authors propose the Intercultural Model of Ethical Decision Making as a practical, user-friendly tool to help school counselors meet these complex challenges.

The Experience of Ethical Dilemmas, Burnout, and Stress Among Practicing Counselors

“…Ethical standards or codes of ethics (ACA, ; National Board for Certified Counselors, ) exist to provide a road map for counselors to abide by when they face ethical challenges. In addition, counselors use decision‐making models (i.e., Cottone & Claus, ; Kocet & Herlihy, ; Levitt & Aligo, ; Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, ), which incorporate ethical standards, moral principles, and cultural values to help resolve ethical dilemmas as they arise. However, ethical dilemmas can differ in type and severity of issues (Bodenhorn, ; Herlihy & Dufrene, ), ranging from the use of social media with clients (Jordan et al, ; Mullen, Griffith, Greene, & Lambie, ) to reporting suspected abuse (Henderson, ; Lambie, ).…”

Content Mastery Service : A Help In Related Consulting Problems Student Learning Activities

“…The world of education is always changing, and students are the agents that most impact on those ers or counselors need to prepare themselves to be responsive to the changing world of education in the future (Knechtel, 2008) and have a thorough understanding of learning activities (Donaldson, 2011;Wood, 2018;Shankar & Park, 2016). The school counselor is a professional in charge of providing assistance (Luke, Goodrich & Gilbride, 2013) in the form of counseling services. These counseling services contain educational values to help students achieve their developmental tasks, independence, self ling, effective and happy lives (Prayitno, 2017).…”

The Professional Peer Membership of School Counselors and the Resources Used Within Their Decision-Making

“…The professional resource item was created after reviewing other ethical decision making scoring instruments (e.g., the Intercultural Model of Ethical Decision Making [IMED]; Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, 2013b). The scoring instrument underwent multiple rounds of review, and the items were piloted with experts in ethical decision making (Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, 2013a) and tested with masters' students (Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, 2013b).…”

“…The scoring instrument underwent multiple rounds of review, and the items were piloted with experts in ethical decision making (Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, 2013a) and tested with masters' students (Luke, Goodrich, & Gilbride, 2013b). Participants were provided a list of potential resources and asked to rate the likelihood that she/he would use that resource on a scale from 0 (not at all likely) to 10 (very likely).…”