Career Development Professionals (CDPs) adhere to a professional Code of Ethics. CDPs use ethical decision-making to determine the course of action required to address professional challenges or dilemmas.The Code of Ethics sets requirements on key areas of practice, such as informed consent, respecting client rights to privacy, relationships with clients, organizations, and other professionals.
Competent career development professionals must be able to:
Competent career development professionals must know and understand:
Competent career development professionals must be able to perform this competency in the following range of contexts:
Stakeholder needs and preferences will vary; ethical issues often involve a wide range of stakeholders, such as the community or environment, and additional needs and preferences, such as dignity, rights and fairness. In addition, there may be multiple and/or conflicting ethical issues stemming from a single situation, adding complexity to this task..
Industry-specific terms contained in the standard defined here, where applicable.
Safeguards: measures or actions taken to prevent reoccurrence of an issue, to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable.
Q: What is the consequence of a professional being unable to perform this skill according to the standard?
Q: How frequent and under what conditions is this skill performed?
Q: Under routine circumstances, how would you rate the level of difficulty in performing this skill?
Q: What is the average length of time or number of repeated events that are minimally necessary for an individual to become proficient in performing the skill to the standard?
To ensure clients can make informed decisions, a career development professional should perform this competency proficiently immediately upon entering practice.
Practitioners typically perform this competency with and without supervision, and alone and as part of a team.
It is unlikely that this competency will automate.
