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Website. www .counseling .org. The American Counseling Association ( ACA) is a membership organization representing licensed professional counselors (LPCs), counseling students, and other counseling professionals in the United States. It is the world's largest association exclusively representing professional counselors.
The American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (for short, the Ethics Code, as referred to by the APA) includes an introduction, preamble, a list of five aspirational principles and a list of ten enforceable standards that psychologists use to guide ethical decisions in practice, research, and education.
The American Mental Health Counselors Association (abbreviated AMHCA) is an organization of licensed mental health counselors in the United States. Its activities include setting and enforcing standards for education, licensing, and ethics for American mental health counselors. [2] It also publishes the Journal of Mental Health Counseling ...
It has adopted a code of ethics used for Christian counseling. [7] [8] [9] In 2014 AACC amended its code of ethics to eliminate the promotion of conversion therapy for same-sex attracted individuals, encouraging those individuals to practice a celibate sexual life instead. [10]
The American College Counseling Association ( ACCA) is a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA) for individuals whose professional identity is in counseling, whose work setting is higher education, and whose purpose is fostering students’ development. The dual focus on a professional identity and on student development as a ...
ACA members agree to abide by a code of conduct. The code establishes standards of conduct for the industry. The code requires members to treat consumers with dignity and respect, and to appoint an officer with authority to handle consumer complaints. Under the code, ACA ceased the practice of investigating consumer complaints against members.
Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that began with a focus on vocational counseling, but later moved its emphasis to adjustment counseling, [ 1] and then expanded to cover all normal psychology psychotherapy. There are many subcategories for counseling psychology, such as marriage and family counseling, rehabilitation counseling ...
The ACA framework is based on the 12 steps and 12 traditions of AA. [12] During the 1990s, the organization went through rapid growth. In 1989, there were 1,300 ACA meetings and by 2003 there were an estimated 40,000 members of ACA. [13] [14] In 2014, there were 1,300 groups worldwide, about 780 of these in the USA. [citation needed]