The Code of Ethics for Professional Rehabilitation Counselors: what we have and what we need.

This article provides an overview of the ethical and professional trends and concerns that led to the formation of the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification "Ethics Task Force." This task force has been charged with rewriting the ethical code for rehabilitation counselors. Historical issues, the Commission's ethics review process, and the present code are briefly analyzed. Procedures used by the task force for revising the code are outlined. Code revisions should serve the profession by guiding ethical and professional practice well into the 21st century.

Interdisciplinary team member perceptions of ethical issues in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation is one of the most challenging and complex aspects of rehabilitation clinically, administratively, and ethically. The prevailing standard of care in this area emphasizes the importance of treatment within an interdisciplinary team model. Empirical literature related to both individual clinician and team aspects of the ethical issues involved in head injury rehabilitation has been lacking. This study utilized a survey approach to describe the perceptions of interdisciplinary team members in TBI rehabilitation at various care-levels in rehabilitation regarding ethical issues in their practice. A sample of 84 interdisciplinary team members responded to a new survey instrument, the Ethical Urgency Survey (EUS), describing the frequency of issues, their importance, and the perceived level of distress with ethical dilemmas in five domains of TBI practice: legal, rehabilitation treatment, family/social, medical treatment, and research issues. Additionally, it was found that there were significant differences between how members of different disciplinary groups viewed these ethical issues.

Ethics and the practice of rehabilitation counselor supervision.

The ethical issues inherent in rehabilitation counselor supervision are discussed. More specifically, the following topics are addressed: (a) emerging ethical standards in rehabilitation counseling supervision, (b) supervisory relationship vulnerability and codes of ethics applicable to rehabilitation supervision, and (c) ethical concerns that are common to supervision.