SOWK 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Professional Boundaries, Ethical Dilemma, Jeremy Bentham
6 Dec 2016
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How they inform practice, reflect upon conflicting situations, personal values reflect your position on issues. Values can be based on cultural contexts shared by certain people or based on experiences. Link theory to clients; shifts from ridged perspective to openness and negotiation. Duty-based or kantianist approach: relationship and decisions made are guided by sense of morality or duty. Emphasis on self- determination, mutual respect, motivating client to access their rights and maintaining confidentiality, considers consequences of certain actions. Utilitarnism: jeremy bentham and john stuart; what is beneficial to the entire community rather than individuals. Decisions affecting publics and acts of sacrifice for all. Virtue-based approach: emphasize positive virtues, but difficult to determine which is the highest positive virtue to be emphasized in society. Feminist approach: interactions based on relationships, empowerment, trust and loyalty; looks at power relationships. Intuitionist ethical theories: intuition informs analysis on what is good or bad, no rational way, weigh options and decide safest action.
