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Running head: Ethics Paper

ACA Code of Ethics and AACC Code of Ethics;
what are the Similarities and Differences?


Abstract
The American Counseling Association Code of Ethics (ACA Code) and the American Association of Christian Counselors Code of Ethics (AACC Code) has many similarities as well as differences. Codes of ethics are designed to protect the client, counselor and the profession. This report will compare and contrast three separate areas within each of the two ethics codes. All areas of the ethics codes are important; however the three that have been chosen are of particular interest to the writer. Two of the areas that are addressed, confidentiality and sexual intimacies, come from duties to the client and the last area, reporting colleagues, comes from duties to the profession.
ACA CODE OF ETHICS AND AACC CODE OF ETHICS,
WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES?
In the field of counseling, either secular counseling or Christian counseling......

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