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Professional Practice : ISSUES
Some of the issues around the Professional Practice of Astrology
As a professional astrologer, or member of the public, you are invited to send further issues for inclusion here. Email network@optionsunlimited.co.za
Basic pre-requisites and standards
- Qualifications and credentials
- Basic skills and knowledge other than
knowledge of astrology e.g. counselling
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- Advertising and promotion - standards
- Pre-disclosure to clients e.g. price,
duration, preparation, etc
- Records - Financial and client
- Tax
Code of Conduct
- Accountability: to the public, to the profession
- Confidentiality and discretion
- Sharing of information and knowledge
- Boundaries with e.g. other professions and
modalities; with clients
- Dealing with complaints / Disciplinary code
- Responsibility to other professions
- Responsibility to the public vs
responsibility to the profession
- Referrals practice
- Mutual professional support/supervision
Education
- Continuing education
- Teaching and examination standards
- Training the next generation of professionals
- Qualifications for teachers
- Supervision
- Training for Specialisations (e.g. medical astrology)
Ethics and principles
- Integrity standards and issues
- Research standards
- Respect for clients' right to self-determination
- Appreciation of diversity and non-discrimination
- Respect for, and acknowledgement of, copyright
intellectual property, sources and software
- Loyalty to professional colleagues - issues
e.g. criticism; shared clients and students etc
Fees
- Bartering
- Disclosure of fees
- Standardising of fees
- When should a student charge?
- Free consultations
- Student fees
Professional image
- Business premises
- Props - e.g. candles, incence, crystal balls
- Personal appearance
Responsibilities
- Public perception of professional astrology
- Questionable interpretations : e.g. baby charts,
3rd party interpretations
- Relationship to, and interaction with the media
- Responsible prediction e.g. mundane predictions;
prediction of death
- Diagnosis and prescription
- Tape recordings and printed reports
Personal
- Self-care - physical, emotional and spiritual health
- Mutual support from colleagues
- Trust fund for professional astrologers
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