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ETHICS AND VALUES FOR HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSIONALS
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BSHS 335 Week 1 Learning Team Charter
Complete the Learning Team Charter, located in the Learning Team Toolkit.
Note: When approaching Learning Team assignments, equal group work is required. Reference your Learning Team Charter for the details and guidance.
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BSHS 335 Week 1 Codes of Ethics and Decision-Making Models Comparative Charts and Response
Complete the Codes of Ethics and Decision-Making Models Comparative Charts and Response.
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Codes of Ethics and Decision-Making Models Comparative Charts and Response
Instructions
Human services professionals often need to make ethical decisions when providing support to clients. There several Codes of Ethics established by various associations to guide human service professionals when they encounter these situations.
Research the organizations and their Codes of Ethics listed in the Code of Ethics Comparative Chart below.
Complete the Code of Ethics Comparative Chart by recording each association’s guidelines regarding responsibilities to their clients, limitations to confidentiality, cultural considerations, and other important themes.
Note: the last row in the chart is an opportunity for you to list your personal values towards responsibilities to their clients, limitations to confidentiality, cultural considerations, and other ethical considerations.
Code of Ethics Comparative Chart
| Organization | Responsibility to client | Limitations to Confidentiality | Cultural Considerations | Other Important Themes |
| Organization of Human Services (NOHS) | ||||
| American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) | ||||
| National Association of Social Workers (NASW) | ||||
| American Psychological Association (APA) | ||||
| American Counseling Association (ACA) | ||||
| Your Personal Values |
Complete the Decision-Making Models Comparative Chart to compare three popular models of ethical decision-making approaches.
Decision-Making Models Comparative Chart
| Models | Characteristics of the model | Advantages of the model | Disadvantages of the model |
| Feminist model | |||
| Social constructionist model | |||
| Transcultural integrative model |
BSHS 335 Week 2 Ethical Practice Brochure
Imagine your Learning Team has been asked to provide ethical consultation and support to a human services organization.
Prepare a 6-fold brochure detailing how your Learning Team would provide this support and consultation.
Use the Brochure Builder, Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint®, or Visio® to help create your brochure.
Include the following in the brochure:
- Overview of Ethical Standards in the Client-Human Services Professional Relationship.
- Topics which may lead to ethical dilemmas.
- Key ethical factors human service professionals must consider, such as identifying when informed consent has been provided, and the impact of duty to warn and duty to protect on a client’s right to confidentiality.
- Resources available to human service professionals when they face ethical dilemmas.
- Importance of proper client record storage and how to maintain confidentiality.
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BSHS 335 Week 2 Ethical Case Study
Select one of the Case Illustrations within the chapters, or the Concluding Case Illustrations at the end of chapters, from Ch. 1-9 of Ethical Practice in the Human Services.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper applying the following information:
- Summarize the situation.
- Outline the role of the human services professional in the facilitation of client self-determination, in least intrusive intervention, and in least restrictive environment.
- Identify the ethical dilemmas present in the case.
- Describe how you, as a human services professional, would approach this ethical dilemma while doing the following:
- Respecting confidentiality
- Providing informed consent
- Considering duty to warn and duty to protect
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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BSHS 335 Week 3 Human Services Competencies Questionnaire
Complete the Human Services Competencies Questionnaire.
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Human Services Competencies Questionnaire
You have been asked by your supervisor to help develop a questionnaire that will be used to determine the competencies of human service professionals applying for a position with your human service agency. Your supervisor has already developed five questions for the questionnaire listed below. You have been tasked to create five additional questions that will help address the following:
- The applicant’s method for handling ethical issues.
- The applicant’s plan for staying current in his or her area of expertise and for receiving continuing education.
- The applicant’s approach to boundaries and multiple relationships.
- The applicant’s commitment to multicultural competence.
After creating your five additional questions, your supervisor has asked that you test the questionnaire by creating complete and detailed responses, as if you were one of the professionals applying for the position, to all 10 questions.
Complete the questionnaire, utilizing complete and detailed responses, as if you were one of the professionals applying for the position by answering ALL 10 questions.
| Question | Your answer |
| How would you describe the purpose of boundaries within the field of human services? | |
| How do you know when someone is demonstrating multicultural competence? | |
| What is the first thing you do when faced with an ethical issue in your field of practice? | |
| Would you describe yourself as having professional competence? Why or why not? | |
| Which of the professional Codes of Ethics do you follow? How do you apply them to multiple relationships for human service workers? | |
BSHS 335 Week 4 Ethical Issues in Family Services Presentation
Select a case study from one of the following options:
- A case illustration from Exercise 13.1, 13.2, or 13.4, or from the Concluding Case Illustration at the end of Ch. 13
- An issue from local, state, or national current events which involves an ethical issue related to couples, families, groups and/or the community
Prepare a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation about the couple, family, group or community, the ethical dilemma(s) of the case, and how a human service professional would address the ethical concerns. Be sure to apply specific ethical guidelines to the situation, including applicable professional standards from at least two different Codes of Ethics.
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BSHS 335 Week 4 Group Services Analysis
Locate three different human service groups provided near or within your community (support groups for addiction, weight loss support groups, groups for new moms, etc).
Obtain information about the groups via their website, by making a phone call, sending an email, or visiting the group in person.
Prepare a 350- to 500-word overview of each group in which the following components are addressed:
- What kinds of services are provided by this group?
- Should members be pre-screened for any reason? Why or why not?
- What specific training and experience do you feel is essential to be ethical and effective with this group?
- What kinds of ethical dilemmas may arise in this type of group?
- Which code(s) of ethics would be relevant to this group? Explain how these codes address the needs of the group?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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BSHS 335 Week 5 Self-Evaluation Paper
Envision that you are a Human Services worker at the local Community Family Homeless shelter. You are preparing for the Holiday gift giving event by matching the donated gifts to your clients. You consider yourself to be an ethical professional. However, you are questioning whether it is ethical to switch the gift tag on one gift. One of the little girls at the shelter lost her favorite “American Girl” doll and has been crying about her lost doll since she and her family arrived at the shelter. Today, you see that a “American Girl” doll gift is tagged to another child at the shelter. What do you do?
Review the Codes of Ethics and Decision-Making Models Comparative Charts and Response that you completed for Week 2.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss your ethical decision to switch the tag or not:
- Include how you apply the ethical guidelines to make an informed ethical decision.
- Identify your personal and professional values and attitudes regarding the ethical situation
- Describe how you will ensure that you are engaged in an ethical human service practice
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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BSHS 335 Week 5 Supervisory Relationships Presentation
Prepare a 4- to 6-slide PowerPoint® presentation on the nature of supervisory relationships and ethics for human services professionals. Address the following in your presentation:
- Summarize one standard from a professional code of ethics that you feel is most relevant to supervision in the human services field, and explain why.
- What types of support will you need from a supervisor throughout your work in the field of human services?
- What will your legal and ethical responsibilities be if you become a supervisor?
- What types of ethical issues might you face in your supervisory relationships?
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