Counselling record or notes: clinical, ethical, legal, fiscal, and risk management dimensions

Abstract

Counselling process is a function of different issues that contribute to its uniqueness. Counselling records remain a veritable issue that benefits the counsellor, the client, and the entire counselling process. This paper, therefore, discussed counselling records as one area that requires adequate consideration from the counsellor. It is contended that counselling records will serve its purposes when its different dimensions are known and utilized by the counsellor. These different dimensions discussed were the clinical, ethical, legal, fiscal, and risk management dimensions. They point to the multi-purpose nature of a counselling record.