Attitudes about ethical and professional issues

Attitudes about ethical and professional issues

Revisit, or if helpful, retake, the self-assessment at the end of the course textbook Chapter 1, which surveys attitudes about ethical and professional issues, and which you took as a Week 1 Portfolio Milestone assignment at the beginning of the course.
Based on the evolution of your thinking about ethical and legal practices in the field of human services from the beginning through the middle and to the end of the course, revisit the notes you have taken on the self-assessment during each module of the course and then submit a critical essay that accounts for each of the following items:
1. Describe what you consider to be the most important shifts, revisions, or additions to your thinking about ethical practice on five specific survey items. Specify on which of these items and in which areas of ethics your thinking has changed most and explain the changes.
2. Explain how the evolution of your thinking on these issues reflects on what constitutes an ethical practitioner in the field, naming, applying, and critically evaluating applicable codes of ethics
3. Offer a critique of the self-assessment instrument itself. Was the instrument useful in terms of helping gauge your acquisition of knowledge in human services ethics? Why or why not? What improvements to the instrument would you suggest, if any?
4. Of all of the ethical codes you have reviewed in this course, identify two that you feel are the most essential to your thinking and explain why.
5. Of all of the ethical codes you have reviewed in this course, identify two that you feel are the least essential or that constitute a hindrance to your thinking on ethics and professional practices and explain why.
Final Paper Instructions:
1. Include an introduction. It must provide a clear statement of your position on the topic.
2. Your paper must be at 8 pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages, which you must include.
3. Examine your position for each question by providing citations from at least three sources two of which are not the course textbook. .
4. Your paper must be properly cited and formatted in APA. The paper must demonstrate the evolution of your thinking about ethical and legal practices in the field of human services. Your paper is expected to have depth and offer a thoughtful analysis. The paper should be based on references to scholarly materials (rather than on introductory textbooks, popular website writings, or musings, for example) and should support your claims with evidence.
The most common mistakes in writing an essay are (a) simply summarizing the topic and not analyzing it or discussing your views and (b) failing to relate the subject to the broader context as discussed in class and as found in the readings.

Textbook:Corey, C., Corey, G., Schneider, C. M., & Callanan, P. (2015). Issues and ethics in the helping professions (9th ed.).