Ethical dilemmas related to counseling clients living with HIV/AIDS

Rehabil Couns Bull. 1999 Winter;43(1):41-50. doi: 10.1177/003435529904300107.

Abstract

This study tested an eight-factor model of client actions/decisions in terms of the extent to which professionals counseling persons with HIV/AIDS believed that those actions/decisions presented ethical dilemmas, and the frequency with which they encountered such actions. A confirmatory factor analysis lent initial support for the hypothetical eight-factor ethical-dilemma model for the ratings regarding the extent to which the participants believed those items constituted ethical dilemmas. Similar results were obtained for the frequency ratings, but in this case a second, competing model was equally plausible. Several significant predictors of participant ratings were found and are discussed.

MeSH terms

  • Confidentiality
  • Counseling / ethics*
  • Data Collection
  • Disclosure / ethics
  • Duty to Warn
  • Ethics, Professional*
  • HIV Infections / rehabilitation*
  • Humans
  • Mental Health Services / ethics
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Principle-Based Ethics
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Terminal Care / ethics
  • Virtues