FRHD 4310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Family Therapy, Palliative Care, Outline Of Health Sciences
3 Oct 2017
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Various professional organizations, such as social work, psychiatry, and family therapy have codes of ethics that provide broad guidelines for members. American psychological association: guidelines for psychological practice with older adults, evidence-based practice in psychology, record keeping guidelines. Another example is the national association of social workers who have developed some practice guidelines: client self-determination in end of life decisions, nasw standards for social work practice in palliative and end of life care. Common themes of codes of ethics: unethical behaviour: avoiding harm and exploitation, being interested in welfare of clients answers to ethical dilemmas. There are differences in the ethics codes of various professional organizations, but there also many similarities such as: Pleading ignorance of the specifics of the ethics code of one"s profession is not an acceptable excuse for engaging in. Ethics codes for most professional organizations are broad and general, which means that they don"t provide specific: practicing scope of one"s competence, protecting client"s confidentiality and privacy.
