1. Ethical practice and decision making require that the helping professional:
   1. Consider the situation from _________ points of view
   2. Develop a list of issues that represent ________ viewpoints
   3. Generate possible ______________
   4. Weight the ______________of each decision carefully
2. Ethical practice requires:
   1. Knowledge of the professional _____________________
   2. _________________ thinking skills
   3. An understanding of human _________________
   4. Good ____________________ skills
   5. The ability to establish ____________________
   6. Decision _______________skills
3. The foundation of ethical behavior is based on ______________ that are shared by members of the profession
4. These principles focus on the way in which the client and helper ___________and include:
   1. Autonomy – commitment to respect a client’s right to define his or her own problems, help choose interventions and help evaluate successes and satisfactions; this fosters client _______________  and independence
   2. Nonmaleficence – This means that the human services worker will not takes risks that will _________ the client.
   3. Justice – The human services worker is obligated to promote ____________ of access for clients, is fair and nondiscriminatory.
   4. Fidelity – Respecting the trust that clients place in the hands of helpers and guarding against the erosion of that trust by fulfilling responsibilities, keeping _____________and being honest in their interactions with clients.
   5. Veracity – This means being ___________ with clients.
5. Increased public ____________of professional behavior and the passage of federal and state legislation related to the helping professions had emphasized the importance of ethical concerns in service delivery.

Ethical Considerations

6. Codes of ethics reflect professional concerns and define ____________ principles
7. Purposes of a code of ethics.

a.  It establish guidelines for ___________ behavior

                        b.  It assists members of the profession in establishing a professional                              ____________

                        c.  It _______________ members from practices that may result in public                                 condemnation

d.  It provide self-regulating _________________

                        e.  It protects clients from ________________ helpers

                        f.  It protect helpers from _________________ lawsuits

      8.   Limitations of a code of ethics

                        a.  Does not cover every situation

                        b.  Provide only a ___________ for ethical behavior

                        c.  May conflict with other ___________ or legislation

       9.   Ethics and the profession

                        a.  A code of ethics is binding only on members of ____________

                        b.  A code is based on the premise that a profession _______ itself

                        c.  Self-regulation involves informal and formal ______________

      10.  Codes of ethics and the law

                        a.  The law is generally supportive of ethical standards, or at least

                         __________ towards those standards.

                        b.  The law intervenes and overrides when necessary to protect public                           health, safety, and _____________

                        c.  The Tarasoff case supported ____________ possible victims over                           confidentiality

       11.  Ethics and diversity

                        a.  Many human services professionals display unintentional __________

                             because of hidden beliefs and attitudes.

                        b.  It is unethical to consciously endorse  __________beliefs and attitudes.

                        c.  Basic tenets of Codes of Ethics may not always apply to all                                            _____________

                        d.  Today, codes of ethics emphasize ____________ competence

        12.  Competence is defined by identifying standards for _________ within the

               profession

                         a.  Statements about _____________ training, supervised experience, and

                              areas of specialization relate to competence

                         b.  Workers have an obligation to ensure that services meet __________

                              standards

         13.  Responsibility concerns obligations to others with a commitment to helping

                clients develop to the best of their _________________.

a.       Helpers have a responsibility to ______________ the profession.

b.      Helpers may have a ___________between their responsibility to the client and their obligation to society as a whole; it is important that helpers be able to clearly explain this ___________ to the client.

c.       This may involve locating or developing _____________

14.    Ethical standards of competence and responsibility are often ___________; in situations in which they are not, the worker is _____________ to find other services for the client.

Confidentiality

15.    Confidentiality is the helper’s assurance that information is not __________.

16.    Some situations may require a breach of confidentiality.  Exceptions include:

a.       _________ may have the legal right to some information about their ____________

b.      Courts may require some information be ____________

c.       Suspected ___________ abuse must be reported, as well as other types of abuse.

d.      Confidentiality is a ____________obligation.

17.    Privileged communication is a__________ term that allows human services workers to refuse to release information to the courts in certain circumstances.

18.    Relative confidentiality is the _____________ sharing of information among workers of treatment team members

19.    Agency __________will also dictate the parameters of confidentiality.

20.    A new challenge is maintaining confidentiality in a ____________ environment.

Client’ rights

21.    Right to privacy means clients can share whatever information they wish with helpers without ___________

22.    Informed consent is the client’s agreement that information about the helper, the agency, and _________________ for treatment have been received and understood

a.       Professional disclosure statements provide information about the worker and his/her ______________

                                                                       i.      This helps promote the __________ of the helping relationship

                                                                     ii.      This allows worker to define himself/herself as a ___________

23.    Protection means clients also have the right to expect worker to protect them from ___________

Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals

24.    The National Organization for Human Service Education (NOHSE) and the Council for Standards in Human Service Education (CSHSE) worked to develop a separate and distinct ethical code for human services professionals to reflect the unique history and ___________ of the human service profession.

25.    The preamble of the code of ethics introduces the profession’s __________

26.    The standards divide responsibilities into six areas

a.       Clients

b.      The community and society

c.       Colleagues

d.      The profession

e.       Employers

f.        Self

27.    This code provides _____________ only; it does not provide the answers to all ethical dilemmas.

28.    Section II provides professional standards for human service _____________

Ethical Decision Making

29.    The model for ethical decision making can be applied to many dilemmas.

30.    The key question is “what is the best __________ under the circumstances and with individuals involved?”

31.    Moral responsibleness is an attitude the helper assumes that comes from ________the individual

32.    The model has five steps

a.       Identify _______________

b.      Examine _______________codes

c.       Generate possible courses of _____________

d.      Determine ______________

e.       _________________ a course of action

33.    The model may be particularly helpful with dilemmas unique to a specific setting such as it provides a _______________ way of thinking about them.