LEGAL NORMS AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE PRACTICE OF CONSULTING WORK OF HELPING PROFESSIONS

The article analyses professional conflicts of an ethical and legal nature in the activities of specialists in helping professions. In particular, it is noted that helping practices are extremely important for the harmonious development of a person and society. At the same time, an integral part of a specialist’s professionalism is the obligation to be aware of and, to the extent possible in each specific situation, successfully resolve ethical dilemmas in counselling. As specialists complete their specialised education, undergo training supervision and advanced training courses, they become more independent and qualified, take on more responsibility, expand the range of clients (patients) and problems they can work with, enrich their professional repertoire with new techniques, reconsider the spiritual and moral foundations of their work, etc. Although it is not only difficult, but also impossible to solve ethical dilemmas once and for all, their awareness, research and application of various ethical theories to them can help in systematic understanding of ethical and related principles and approaches to assistance, in preventing conflicts and crises and reducing the intensity of the negative impact of ethical dilemmas and crises of conflicts of interest. The authors emphasise the importance of domestic counselling, in which the basic principles are not distorted and are correlated with traditional spiritual and moral values and laws of human life. The traditional ethics of help includes the ideals of a happy and healthy life, full human existence and value, the ideals of harmony and joint development of man and society, the gift and sacrifice of the strong and successful to the weak