Evaluate how you would ensure your own professional behavior in the future. Determine a risk management strategy for managing the good ethical practice.

 

Based in counseling perspective.

A: Identify Ethical Dilemma/Issues

1. Identify the relevant ethical dilemma and issues in the case study.

B: Summarize an Ethical Model

2. Outline the proposed action(s) would take, in this case, providing justification for the proposed action(s) and a description of the decision-making model used to arrive at that decision.

a. The decision-making model should be one that has been discussed in the professional literature and, after explaining the model, you will need to offer a rationale regarding why you chose to apply that particular model to the case study.

I. You should be sure to cite appropriate literature and must give proper credit to the authors of any decision-making models used to analyze the case.

II. Do not simply list the steps of the model, be sure to document and defend your courses of action and your final conclusions.

III. Cite ALL appropriate professional standards and relevant laws. Regardless of the model chosen, you need to clearly identify, describe, and evaluate what ethical codes and laws were violated. Be specific – use mental health statutes and specific ethical codes that apply.

b. Discuss in detail what actions you would take as you proceed through the steps of your chosen ethical decision-making model, each of the steps should take at least a paragraph (or more) to address.

3. Summarize what risk management strategies you would have taken once you found out your peer was engaged in a sexual relationship with your shared site supervisor.

C: Summarize Ethical Research & Evaluate Your Behavior

4. Evaluate how you would ensure your own professional behavior in the future. Determine a risk management strategy for managing the good ethical practice. This discussion does not have to be relevant to the case, but more so regarding how you plan to manage your professional ethics in the future. Please consider:

a. Evaluation of counselor competence

b. Strategies for obtaining supervision/consultation

c. Use of ethical decision-making models

d. Continued education/training on ethics

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