Solution Manual For Choices Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, 9th edition Bob Shebib Chapter 1-11 Chapter One Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness Learning Objectives
Understand the needs of clients seeking counselling from a diverse counselling community of professionals.
Articulate the core values of counselling.
Define and describe professional ethics
Identify principles for understanding and resolving ethical dilemmas with cultural sensitivity.
Grasp the importance of counsellor objectivity, self-awareness, and managing personal needs.
Identify the components of counsellor competence including the importance of self-awareness
Understand burnout and vicarious trauma as workplace hazards.
Comments and Possible Answers to Selected Text Exercises Self-Awareness Instructors: The self-awareness questions in this book are designed to help students begin their professional responsibility to develop and deepen their understanding of self. The exercises focus on essential elements such as: identifying skill strengths and weaknesses, exploring personal areas of vulnerability, developing knowledge of biases, understanding the impact of one‘s own socialization and culture, learning about personal needs and they might hinder counselling, and exploring one‘s impact on others. Encourage students to set goals and to develop appropriate action plans in this area. Refer them to Chapter 8 for goal setting and action planning strategies. To develop self-awareness, emphasize strategies such completion of the self-awareness exercises in each chapter, seeking feedback from others, including (where appropriate) clients. Common Problem with Feedback: Copyright © 2026 Pearson Canada Inc. 1-1