This section includes guidelines for teaching comprehensive counsellor education programmes and briefer professional
development courses. This section applies to counsellors in all their professional practices as counsellor educators.
This includes the roles of assessor, educator, examiner, consultant, facilitator, lecturer, tutor and trainer.
The word ”teacher” will be used to cover all of these roles.
10.1 Course or Programme Information
(a) Teachers make available clear and accurate information about their courses in order to enable interested
parties to make informed choices. Such information should make clear the obligations and responsibilities
of all parties.
10.2 Selection
(a) Where selection procedures are used, teachers shall use equitable, relevant and respectful processes to
select suitable students and trainees.
10.3 Safety
(a) Teachers shall take reasonable steps to protect participants from harm
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10.4 Assessment
(a) Where assessment occurs, teachers shall use fair, transparent, and relevant procedures.
(b) Teachers in the role of assessor should not simultaneously provide counselling to the person
being assessed.
10.5 Exploitation
(a) Teachers shall not abuse their position by exploiting students/trainees
for purposes of personal, professional, political, or financial gain.
(b) Teachers are responsible for setting and monitoring the boundaries between a teaching relationship and
any other kind of relationship and for making such boundaries as clear as possible to the
students/trainees.
10.6 Sexual Relationships With Students / Trainees
(a) Teachers shall not engage in sexual or romantic activity with their students/trainees.
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