Ethical Practice in the Human Services (eBook)

Part One: Helping: The Role and Influence of the Helper
Chapter 1: Ethics – Core to Professional Helping
The Helping Process: A Blending of Art and Science
The Helping Process: The Meeting of Client and Helper
The Role of the Client in the Process of Change
The Role of the Helper in the Process of Change
Chapter 2: Helper Variables: What the Helper Brings to the Helping Relationship
Helper Values
Helper Competence: Beyond Knowledge and Skill
The Ethics of Therapeutic Choice
Professionalization, Professional Ethics, and Personal Response
Chapter 3: Ethical Standards: Guidelines for Helping Others
Formal Ethical Standards: The Evolution of a Profession
Across the Professions: A Review of Ethical Standards of Practice
Common Concerns and Shared Values Across the Professions
Beyond Knowing - A Call to BEING Ethical
Chapter 4: Ethical Practice in an Increasingly Diverse World
Prejudice – Pervasive In and Throughout the Helping Profession
Responding to the Challenge
Part Two:Ethics and Standards of Practice: The Professions’
Chapter 5: Ethics and the Law
The Helping Process as a Legal Contract
The Legal Foundation of Ethical Practice
When Ethics and Legalities Collide
Chapter 6: Conflict: The Reality of ‘Being’ Ethical within the Real World
Serving the Individual within a System
Ethical Culture of Social Systems
Who Is the Client?
Chapter 7: Ethical Decision Making
Codes of Ethics – Guides not Prescriptions
Ethical Decision Making: A Range of Models
Common Elements: An Integrated Approach to Ethical Decision Making
Part Three: Applying Ethical Standards
Chapter 8: Informed Consent
The Rationale for Informed Consent
Informed Consent across the Profession
Special Challenges to Informing for Consent
Chapter 9: Confidentiality
Confidentiality: What and When Warranted?
Legal Decisions: Confidentiality and Privileged Communications
Chapter 10: Boundaries and the Use of Power
Setting and Maintaining Professional Boundaries
Professional Objectivity: Essential to Professional Boundaries
Legal Decisions
Chapter 11: Efficacy of Treatment
Practicing Within the Realm of Competence
Professional Development: Knowing the State of the Profession
The Standard of Care: Appropriate Treatment
Employing an Action Research Approach to Practice
The Use of Referral
Recent Legal Decisions
Chapter 12: Evaluation and Accountability
Monitoring and Evaluating Intervention Effects
Recent Legal Decisions
Chapter 13: Ethical Challenges Working with Groups, Couples and Families
Competency to Practice
Identifying the “Client”
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Boundaries
Responsibility: Client Welfare
Chapter 14: Competence and the Ethics of Self-Care
Competency: More than Knowledge and Skill
Burnout
Compassion Fatigue
The Ethical Challenge
Ethical Response