Questions regarding the precipitating events need to be asked. In order to do so, paraphrasing techniques should be used to clarify what the client is stating. Active listening skills should also be utilized. It is important that the client is allowed to speak; probe as needed; re-direct as needed.
Virtue ethics (or aretaic ethics /ËaerÉËteÉªÉªk/ ËÃ¦rÉËteÉªÉªk from The greek) arete emphasizes the role of'one s character and the virtues that'one s character embodies for determining or evaluating ethical. behaviorossessing these virtues, in virtue ethics, is what makes one moral, and one's actions are a mere reflection of one's inner morality. To the virtue philosopher, action cannot be used as a demarcation of morality, because a virtue encompasses more than just a simple selection of action.
Similarly, Aristotleâs concept of the mean is often misunderstood. In the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle repeatedly states that virtue is a mean. The mean is a state of clarification and apprehension in the midst of pleasures and pains that allows one to judge what seems most truly pleasant or painful.