D5UE 4/24  5 PM EST

As pointed out in your text, ensuring counselor competence is an ongoing responsibility for every counselor. To complete this thread, follow the steps below: 

1. Identify at least one scholarly source written in the past 5 years that indicates which issues or ethical dilemmas most commonly result in discipline by a state board. FLORIDA
2. Go to your particular state board’s website and look up cases of counselor’s who were disciplined by the board. You may want to look under such terms as “case decisions,” enforcement actions,” “actions taken by board,” or “discipline.” If you cannot find your particular state’s disciplinary decisions, then pick another state. 
3. Look over the cases that have come before your state board. Were the disciplinary issues presented on your state board website consistent with the information provided by the article you selected? What were the similarities/differences?
4. Choose one of the more recent cases on your state board's site and discuss the following points:
   
   1. What was the behavior that led to the discipline?
      
      • Identify and share the ACA Code of Ethics and your State Code that was violated.
   2. What was the outcome of the board discipline?
5. What does the ACA Code of Ethics and your state code say about counselor impairment? How does your understanding of counselor impairment inform your thoughts on common ethical dilemmas and board discipline? 
6. How does your faith or belief system inform your thoughts on ethical dilemmas and how you might respond to a situation that could potentially lead to board discipline?