See Attached.5320: Multidisciplinary Ethical Codes
This unit’s assigned readings present ethical issues in diverse human services
environments. Considering Chapter 2 from your Ethical Practice in the Human
Services textbook and the research described in the Hem, Molewijk, and
Pedersen article, address the following in your initial post to this discussion:
● Discuss one of the case illustration scenarios presented in Chapter 2 of
your textbook (page 29, 36, or 38). Highlight the concerns identified,
actions of the helping professional, and insights about the appropriateness
of the choices made by the helping professional.
● Describe at least two common ethical concerns or shared values across
professions, citing a code of ethics for the identified concerns and values.
● Based on your perspective, describe the advantages and disadvantages of
professional ethical codes.Chapter 2. Helper Variables–●–29
the welfare of the client leads us to attend to the client’s needs, values, and
desires as these give shape to the goals of the helping encounter and the
nature of each helping interaction. This client focus is most likely obvious.
As professionals, we understand that our helping is a dynamic process that
takes place within the context of social interaction and as such, all members
involved, including the professional helper, contribute to the focus and pro-
cesses encountered. While our ethics direct us to attend to the needs of our
clients, what may not be obvious or expected is the role that the helper’s
values, needs, beliefs, and interests play in coloring the helping process.
Consider the following case illustration as it demonstrates the potential influ-
ence that the helper’s personal values, needs, beliefs, and interests may exert
within the helping process (Case Illustration 2.1).
Case Illustration 2.1
Michele: Maintaining Objectivity
Michele is a social worker for the Department of Human Services in a
large metropolitan city. From all accounts, she is a consummate profes-
sional, respected by her peers and supervisors and truly embraced by
all her clients. Because of her own competence, Michele is often given
some of the hardest cases to handle.
Michele and her husband of five years have, for the past two years,
unsuccessfully tried to have a child. Michele has just found out that
she is unable to get pregnant because of scar tissue lining her fallopian
tube. This news has been very upsetting to Michele, and she is currently
in counseling.
Michele has continued to go to work and has been able to main-
tain an active professional calendar. Michele has just been assigned a
new case. Judy is an 18-year-old single woman who is currently living
in a halfway house for people progressing through a drug treatment
program. The following is part of the intake interview between Michele
and Judy.
Michele: Hi, Judy. Please come in and have a seat. Thanks for coming.
Judy: No problem.
Michele: As you know, I am a social worker for the Department
of Human Services, and I will be your caseworker while
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Parsons, Richard D., and Karen L. Dickinson. Ethical Practice in the Human Services : From Knowing to Being, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2016.
ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/capella/detail.action?docID=5945468.
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Clearly, Michele’s personal interest in childbearing and current experi-
ence of sadness and grief around her inability to conceive is making it dif-
ficult for her to remain emotion ally detached as she listens to Judy’s story.
Keeping her focus on the client and what is best for that client appears to
be dif
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