Creative Ways to Learn Ethics

Dayna Guido, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, consultant, educator, and trainer. She has a private practice in Asheville, North Carolina, and specializes in providing clinical supervision. She has been teaching graduate school for over 20 years as an adjunct instructor in clinical mental health counseling at Lenoir-Rhyne University, in the School of Social Work in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in the Department of Social Work at Eastern Tennessee State University. Dayna is the co-author of The Parental Tool Box for Parents and Clinicians. She also serves on the NASW-NC Chapter Ethics Committee. She can be reached at daynaguido.com.

Section One: Using Games to Learn Ethics

1. Going Once, Going Twice: The Ethical Values Auction

2. Ethical Code Scavenger Hunt

3. Ethics Trivia Game

4. Ethical Charades

5. The Slippery Slope of Ethics

6. Building Ethical Organizations

Section Two: Using Contemplative Exercises to Learn Ethics

7. Writing Your Ethical Eulogy

8. Ethics on a Cloudy Day: Developing Action Plans for Technologically Cloudy Questions

9. Supervisory Ethics

10. Developing Ethical Resources

11. Developing Ethical Rituals

Section Three: Using Expressive Arts to Learn Ethics

12. Setting Ethical Boundaries with Your Body

13. Embodied Ethics

14. Ethics in Motion

15. The Many Faces of Ethics: Making Masks

16. The Grain of Truth: Enacting Ethics Through the Use of Sand Trays

17. Ethical Sculptures

18. Creating Ethical Super Powers

Section Four: Using Media to Learn Ethics

19. The Ethics of In Treatment

20. Picture Perfect Ethics

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