Ethics & Values

The commitment to include client in decisions about all aspects of care

Taking positive actions to help others

Avoidance of harm or hurt

Fairness

Agreement to keep promises

A set of guiding principles that all member of a profession accept.  Codes serve as guidelines when questions arise about correct behavior or practice

refers to the support of a cause

A willingness to respect obligations and to follow through on promises

the ability to answer for one's own actions

HIPPA mandates the confidential protection of clients' personal health info

A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior

• Immanuel Kant:
• * based on actions of right or wrong based on their "right- making characteristics such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness, and justice"
• * Does NOT look to consequences of action to determine right or wrong but exams the situation.

• * AKA consequentialism.  Based on the consequences.
• * AKA teleology (the end)-- Mills:  the greatest good for the greastest number of people.