Do Moral Values Benefit or Harm Clients and Society?

This whole issue of values keeps coming up again and again in counseling classes. I see it more clearly than ever, American counseling and psychology is geared towards imposing, and even subtly converting, a person's values. We have a society that has shifted from asking the question, "how does my behavior affect society and family" to "I am my own person and whatever is right for me is what is right".

It reminds me of the scripture of Judges in which every man did that which was right in their own eyes.(Judges 21:25, KJV)

What this tells me is that moral relativism is nothing new, but an old morality dressed in the new clothing of humanism.
After years of studying scripture, now coupled with years of studying philosophy and the science of psychology, I am convinced that moral relativism leads to either total anarchy or social chaos as evidenced by our current explosion of lawlessness even at the state level with state lawmakers defying the federal and constitutional laws.

I'm also not sure how I, as a Christian, am going to fit within the environment of humanistic, Rogerian counseling. The ACA has imposed its values upon all counselors by lobbying to have its philosophy of counseling adopted as the only ethics role model for licensure. By doing so it has created an extreme version of individualistic society that does not consider how their behaviors and choices impact society at large. It seems that every group wants their rights (a subtle way of imposing their values).

Is it possible that this drift towards moral relativism is what is creating the explosion of serial killers, mass murders, sexual identity confusion, child abuse, domestic violence, and perhaps some forms of mental illness or maladaptive behaviors such as anxiety, depression, bullying, road rage, narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder, etc, etc.?
Forcing morality upon a person rarely works but ignoring moral values in counseling, or for that matter any relationship, is guaranteed to create conflict, confusion, and eroding of intimate relationships.

Even in the circle of psychological knowledge, there is the theory of moral development by Lawrence Kohlberg and Yale University has developed an experiment that proves that babies as young as three months old have a sense of innate moral values. I have to ask myself, "What is the goal of the APA and ACA in imposing humanist moral relativism upon society while rejecting all other forms of moral values, especially within the counseling relationship.

I have heard at least 10 times that all of their ideas are based on empirical evidence, and yet they never give reference to one research project that validates their claims. I have sincerely searched for research projects concerning this hypothesis and have yet to find one. Counseling students are required to provide a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed empirical data to support our proposals or conclusions in our papers. It is drilled into the fabric of our being to question any claims that do not have corroborating empirical evidence and even then we are instructed to scrutinize the results of research projects. It's how we improve the science and practice of psychology and counseling. Where are the empirical data concerning harm or benefit to clients concerning values?

My questions concerning sharing values with clients are:
1) What research has been done to show a correlation between a counselor sharing values and a client being harmed?

2) What research has been done to show a correlation between a counselor sharing values and the client receiving a benefit? (After all, the first tenet of the ACA is client welfare). Can the ACA prove that moral values shared in counseling actually harm clients?

3) If a client was harmed or benefited from shared values, what was the determining factor of the harm or benefit? Was it the clients environmental conditioning, the counselor's method of sharing, the client's perception of reality, the counselors lack of being empathically present, the counselor's kindness that helped, the client's acceptance of moral development benefitting their relationships?

In my experience and observations, when morality is forced upon a person it is angrily rejected and rightfully so because it is the kindness of God that leads a person to positive outcomes in thinking and behavior. However, when morality is shared with kindness, empathy, sincerity, and gentleness (All Rogerian interventions) then the client is allowed to choose for themselves a lifestyle change that benefits them. (This is known as self-actualization in psychology and in scripture, it is referred to choosing whom we will serve).

Moral relativism leads to self-centered and individualistic outcomes. Moral reality or development leads to a collectivist lifestyle that benefits the individual and society which includes the family system.