UGRD > HUMCTR > 345

Professional Responsibility and Ethics

Description:
This course will address value conflicts and ethical issues workers face when delivering direct services to clients in a range of human service settings; child welfare, criminal justice, mental health, and aging services among others. We will identify ethical issues and effective interventions in direct service work with consumers at risk. This course addresses; moral values, ethical principles and dilemmas, decision making frameworks, client confidentiality and informed consent, client risk, safety and autonomy, paternalism, professional boundaries, conflicts of interests, mandated reporting and legal issues in human services. We will critically examine anonymous cases of consumers at risk, identify ethical issues and value conflicts and apply best practice guidelines from the peer-reviewed literature to these cases, develop service plans, and draw implications of potential interventions for consumers, providers, service organizations and public policy. It is expected that student will gain specialized knowledge and skill in applying ethical theory to practice in human services.

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