Ethical considerations:

• Codes of ethics reflect __________ concerns and define guiding principles

Purposes:

• Establish guidelines for professional behavior
• Assist members of the profession in establishing a professional __________
• Protect members from practices that may result in __________ condemnation
• Provide __________-__________ measures
• Protect clients from __________ helpers
• Protect helpers from __________ lawsuits

Limitations

• Do not cover every situation
• Provide only a __________ for ethical behavior
• May __________ with other codes or legislation

Ethics and the profession

• Binding only on members of organization
• Based on premise that a profession __________ itself

Codes of ethics and the law

• __________ is generally supportive of ethical standards
• Law intervenes and overrides when necessary to protect public health, __________, and welfare
• __________ case supported “duty to warn” possible victims over confidentiality

Competence and responsibility

• Competence is defined by identifying standards for __________ within the profession
• Statements about academic training, supervised experience, and areas of __________ relate to competence
• Workers have an __________ to ensure that services meet standards
• Responsibility concerns obligations to others
• Includes time and __________ for effective practice
• May involve locating or __________ resources

Confidentiality

• The helper’s assurance that information is not __________
• Some situations may require a __________ of confidentiality
• Types of confidentiality
  • __________ communication is a legal term that grants the right not to release information
  • __________ confidentiality is the informal sharing of information among workers of treatment team members

Clients’ rights

• Right to __________ means clients can share whatever information they wish with helpers without pressure
• __________ __________ is the client’s agreement that information about the helper, the agency, and recommendations for treatment have been received and understood
• Professional __________ statements provide information about the worker and his/her credentials
• Promote the development of the __________ relationship
• Allow worker to define himself/herself as a __________
• Clients also have the right to expect worker to protect them from __________

Ethical standards of human service professional

• Preamble introduces the profession’s __________
• The standards divide responsibilities into six areas
  • Clients
  • The community and society
  • Colleagues
  • The profession
  • __________
  • Self
  • Section II provides professional __________ for human service educators

Ethical decision making

• Model for ethical decision making can be applied to many dilemmas
• Key question is “what is the best __________ under the circumstances and with individuals involved?”
• Moral responsibleness is an __________ the helper assumes that comes from within the individual
• Model has five steps
  • Identify dilemma
  • Examine __________ codes
  • Generate possible __________ __________ __________
  • Determine __________
  • Select a course of action
• Model is helpful with dilemmas unique to a specific setting such as corrections

Professional issues in day to day human services work

Allocation of resources

·        Includes allocation of __________ and services

·        Decisions made by human service professionals determine type of __________ clients receive

Paperwork blues

·        Paperwork serves many functions

o       Permanent record of __________ delivery

o       Documents client __________

o       Record of __________

o       Documents time for __________ and billing purposes