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• They continue their own personal and professional development as Counsellors.

• They are establishing, maintaining and monitoring a clear counselling contract.

• Information disclosed during counselling typically remains confidential to that professional relationship except when otherwise negotiated.

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Counsellors need to be open with themselves and with clients about the feasibility of working together in a professional relationship.

The professional relationship defined by an explicit and mutually agreed contract and ends with the contract’s termination. However, specific professional responsibilities continue beyond the termination of the contract.

These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• maintenance of agreed-upon confidentiality

• avoidance of any exploitation of the former relationship

• consideration of any needed follow-up care

Counsellors need to be clear about any responsibilities, including those outlined above, involved in the professional relationship, which may conflict with the client’s interests. Any duties to third parties must be explicit at the pre-counselling contract stage or as soon as they become a counselling factor. For example, a relationship can be the result of a counselling request by indirect assignment. In such cases, the counsellor needs to be explicit with both parties about the accountability involved to both the direct counselling client and the party requesting help, e. g. an employer who makes a request for counselling for an employee with burnout.