FRHD 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Invisibility
Ethics – Individual’s Best Interests
• Ethics - key to helpig professios … ethial pratie
• Ethics help to keep the best interest of the individual (client) in mind
– Individuals receive the best help that is available
• Foundation of Ethical Practice
– Do no harm to individual or society within the social context of helping.
• Ethics is different from
– laws/legal issues.
• Law can deviate from what is ethical
– religion.
– culturally accepted norms.
– science.
Ethics:
Observe and practice ethically and follow professional standards.
Particularly important issues for beginning interviewers are competence,
informed consent, confidentiality, power, and social justice.
Predicted Result:
Client trust and understanding of the inter
The client will feel empowered in a more
work toward social justice, you contribut
addition to healing work in the interview.
Codes of Ethics
The helping professions have developed codes of ethics that are designed to protect the client
and help ensure that interviewers, counselors, and therapists follow appropriate practices.
Codes empower professionals and trainees to:
▪ Protect clients - Safeguard their autonomy and well-being
▪ Enhance the profession
▪ Increase public confidence in profession
▪ Provide consistent standards of practice and ethical conduct for members of profession
▪ Provide mechanism for professional accountability
5 Elements of Ethics
1. Competence – Scope of Practice
– Education, training, supervision, practice, and job parameters.
2. Cofidetiality … Protetig a idiidual’s iforatio
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Document Summary
Ethics - key to helpi(cid:374)g professio(cid:374)s ethi(cid:272)al pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e. Ethics help to keep the best interest of the individual (client) in mind. Individuals receive the best help that is available. Do no harm to individual or society within the social context of helping. Law can deviate from what is ethical religion. Observe and practice ethically and follow professional standards. Particularly important issues for beginning interviewers are competence, informed consent, confidentiality, power, and social justice. The client will feel empowered in a more work toward social justice, you contribut addition to healing work in the interview. The helping professions have developed codes of ethics that are designed to protect the client and help ensure that interviewers, counselors, and therapists follow appropriate practices. Codes empower professionals and trainees to: protect clients - safeguard their autonomy and well-being, enhance the profession. Increase public confidence in profession: provide consistent standards of practice and ethical conduct for members of profession, provide mechanism for professional accountability.