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ASSOCIATION FOR
RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR
THERAPY CODES OF ETHICS & PRACTICEINTRODUCTION
This code serves to establish and maintain standards of practice for REBT practitioners as well as inform and protect clients seeking counselling services.
THE CODE
1The Association will place the names of professionally trained Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapists
and Practitioners in the Association's Register.
2 Practitioners should work in ways that will promote client autonomy and well being and maintain respect for and dignity of the client. REBT is a non-exploitative therapy.
3 Contracting for psychotherapy, counselling or coaching should include clear boundaries and conditions for the therapeutic/coaching relationship.
4 All information given to the client should accurately reflect the nature of REBT and the qualifications and training of the practitioner.
5 Clients should be informed if records of psychotherapy, counselling or coaching sessions are kept and what degree of access those clients and others have to them.
6 Practitioners should monitor and recognise their own limits of competence through such activities as consultative support, psychotherapy, counselling and coaching supervision and client feedback.
7 Practitioners are to maintain high personal and professional standards and monitor their own effectiveness in the psychotherapy, counselling and arena.
8 No practitioner should practise without regular consultative support and supervision.
9 Practitioners should work within the law and be aware of current legislation affecting the work of psychotherapists, counsellors and coaches.
10 The terms of client confidentiality should be clearly explained to the client in pre-session information or during initial contracting.
11 Client confidentiality is maintained and only breached without the client's consent in exceptional circumstances. This breach should be minimised by releasing only essential information pertinent to the immediate situation.
12 Practitioners using client information for case studies, research, publications, or other purposes, should seek client's informed consent. In addition, it is important to disguise the clients' identities to the extent that they cannot be recognised by others.
13 A complaints procedure should be clearly outlined to clients if they are dissatisfied with the practitioner’s competence, behaviour or any other aspect of the helping relationship being undertaken.
Addendum
This code provides only a minimum framework to guide practitioners and can be revised or amended when necessary by the Council of AREBT.
1st March, 2004
Complaints & disciplinary procedure
If any person considers that a member of the Association has acted in breach of
the Guidelines for Good Practice of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy or for
any other reason ought not to be a member of the Association, that person should
write to the Chair of the Association. For further details please download
the Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure document. Thank
you.
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