Dr. Telly Kamelia 
If you only need the buying answer
The current print listing for Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling is the strongest clean ownership route in this snapshot by a large margin. It is far below both the sampled Walmart price and the reduced Pearson direct price. For a counseling ethics text that many students revisit in practicum, internship, supervision, and early clinical work, print is the easy recommendation.
| Format | Source | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merybook | $70.95 | Check price | |
| Paperback | Walmart Marketplace | $131.25 | Check price |
| Paperback | Pearson | $131.65 | Check price |
This is not a subtle print advantage. The current copy is dramatically below the surrounding new-print market, which means ownership is easier to justify than usual. You are getting the format that best suits long-term professional reuse at the best verified price in the set.
What this book actually teaches
An ethics-and-professional-issues counseling text matters because it trains judgment, not just recall. Students need to understand confidentiality, informed consent, boundaries, competence, documentation, supervision, licensure, mandated reporting, legal exposure, and the way professional standards shape real decisions with clients. Those questions do not stay inside one class. They become part of clinical identity.
That is why a retained copy makes sense. Counselors and counseling students often return to ethical frameworks when they move into practicum, internship, supervision, and later professional practice. A print book that can be marked, flagged, and revisited is often more valuable than a temporary access model here.
Who should buy print
Buy the print copy if you are heading into any counseling, mental-health, school-counseling, or helping-professions pathway where ethical and legal questions will keep returning. At the current price, print is not just defensible. It is the strongest ownership route by a wide margin.
