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C6440 Ethics in Counseling

Argosy University- Tampa Campus

Bulletin Board for C6440

Spring, Term 2, 2007 (3/1/07 – 4/21/07)

Content:

• Word Document to download of Syllabus for C6440 for Spring 2 2007

• Course Calendar

• Online Discussion Platform

• Relevant Current Events

• Weekly Discussion Questions

  • Tips for Weekly Discussion Questions

• Weekly Personal Reactions to Readings and Self Inventory

  • Tips for Working with the Weekly Personal Reactions

• Ethics in Action Video Reactions

  • Tips for Reactions to Ethics in Action Videos

• Template for Ethical Case Analysis Grids

  • Tips for Improving your Ethical Case Analysis Grids

• Housekeeping Chores to improve your ONLINE responses to all Assignment and your Ethical Case Analyzes

• Instructions for My Personal Ethical Policies and Procedures Manual Project

  • Tips on How to Efficiently Prepare this Manual Grid

• SQ4R Method of Reading for reading required reading materials for college courses:
• Information on www.coping.org which can help you in this course
• Additional Search Engines to help you find needed resource

Online Discussion Platform

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C6440 Course Calendar:  Spring 2 March 1-April 21, 2007

Relevant Current Events:

• Impaired Practitioners from athealth.com

  • Physicians Are Not Invincible from Medscape

  • Sexually Addicted Healthcare Providers from athealth.com

  • Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex from Psychboard

  • Mandated Supervision: Intervention for Disciplined Professionals from ACA's Journal

  • Boundary Violations in the Professional Relationship from advocateweb

• NIH Chief Calls for Ethics Summit from Los Angeles Times, Feb 12, 2005

  • NIH Bans Consulting from Chemical & Engineering News, Feb 12, 2005

  • NIH ethics report draws critics from the Scientist, August 12, 2005

  • NIH needs 'drastic changes' from the Scientist, June 23, 2005

  • Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Conflict of Interest Policies, Report of the National Institutes of Health, June 22, 2004

• Attorneys in Bryant Case Spar Over Records

• FindLaw's Writ - Hilden: The Kobe Bryant Case The Court May Have Been Right to Withhold His Accuser's Psychiatric History, But The Law on This Issue Is Wrong

• The Case Against Michael Jackson

Seven Weekly Discussion Question: 2 point each week (14 points) for seven weeks of posting. DQ initial response due Noon Wednesday of each week.

Beginning the first week of class you are to make a weekly online contact, via the Online Discussion Platform of 2 contacts a day for five days of each of seven weeks in this online class. One of these threads is a weekly discussion question to which you are to submit a 250 word response and then react to your classmate’s responses. Your initial online reaction to each Discussion Question is due by Friday of each week.

Tips for Weekly Discussion Questions

• Try to support your positions taken on the weekly discussion questions with quotes or paraphrasing from relevant journal articles or sections of the textbook.

• Be sure to consult the ACA, AMHCA, ASCA and AAMFT Codes of Ethics prior to responding to be sure you understand their perspective concerning the question being asked and quote relevant principles from the various codes when you respond to the questions initially and when you are reacting to the responses of your fellow classmates

• Remember that there is not black or white in Ethics and be ready to broaden your perspective as to what it takes to address the questions being asked

• Be respectful in responding to your fellow classmates responses to the discussion questions

Weekly Reading and Inventory Reactions are due by noon on every Thursday of the week for six weeks. 3 points each (18 points) This is a 500 word reaction to the readings and ethical self-inventory in the specific assigned Corey Text readings for the week.

In your reactions you are to respond to any or all of the following issues:

1. What did you feel in responding to the inventory and what did you have a strong reaction to in doing the inventory?

2. What surprised you in what you read about the ethical issues involved in the readings for this week?

3. From what you have read this week, what do you think will be the most difficulty thing for you to implement in your professional counseling career?

4. From what you have read this week, how has your attitude about Ethics in Counseling changed or remained the same?

5. What do you suspect you have gained from this reading which you will incorporate into your ethical policies and procedures as a counselor (hopefully this helps you to get ready for your final paper in the course as well)?

Tips on Weekly Personal Reactions to Readings

• In a Word document create your response to be sure it makes sense, has good grammar and with the word count that it is at least 500 words, then copy the response from the word document and post it on the online discussion web based platform.

• Find journal articles which relate to the specific topics being discussed in the book to support or confront concepts presented by the authors in the specific readings being covered for the week.

Weekly Discussion Questions:

Beginning the first week of class you are to make a weekly online contact, via the Online Discussion Platform of 2 contacts a day for five days of each of seven weeks in this online class. One of these threads is a weekly discussion question to which you are to submit a 250 word response and then react to your classmate’s responses. Your initial online reaction to each Discussion Question is due by noon TBA of each week.

Tips for Weekly Discussion Questions

• Try to support your positions taken on the weekly discussion questions with quotes or paraphrasing from relevant journal articles or sections of the textbook.

• Be sure to consult the ACA, AMHCA, ASCA and AAMFT Codes of Ethics prior to responding to be sure you understand their perspective concerning the question being asked and quote relevant principles from the various codes when you respond to the questions initially and when you are reacting to the responses of your fellow classmates

• Remember that there is not black or white in Ethics and be ready to broaden your perspective as to what it takes to address the questions being asked

• Be respectful in responding to your fellow classmates responses to the discussion questions

Ethics in Action Video’s Analysis 4 points each for a total of 24 points

Each week for six weeks you will be expected to give a reaction to two videos in the Ethics in Action video tape series on the CD: Corey, G., Corey, M. S., & Callanan, P. (2003).  Ethics in Action [CD-ROM]. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-534-63970-4

These reactions will be due by Noon on TBA for six weeks beginning week 1. The reaction will be no less than 250 words per grid with a separate grid for each of the videos. The grid to be used is as follows:

Ethics in Action Video Analysis Grid for Video #__

 The Ethics in Action Analysis grids are due on noon on Sundays for six weeks as follows:

Tips for Reactions to Ethics in Action Videos

• Review relevant journal articles or sections of the textbook relevant to the topic on each video and quote or reference them in your reaction grid to the specific video as well as your reaction to your fellow classmates' grids

• Review the Codes of Ethics of ACA, AMHCA, ASCA, and AAMFT and see what they have to say about the situation raised by the specific video and reference specific principles from the code in your grid as well as your reaction to your fellow classmates' grids

• It is important in analyzing ethical situations that counselors recognize that there are six basic moral principles which form the highest level of ethical functioning by counselors. These are pointed out on pp 17-19 in Corey, et al. They are:

  1. autonomy

  2. Nonmaleficence

  3. beneficence

  4. justice

  5. fidelity

  6. veracity.

   

Template for Ethical Case Analysis

Ethical Case Analysis – 7 cases (1000 word minimum per case) at 5 points each for 35 points total.

Specific ethical cases from the attached list at the end of the syllabus are to be analyzed and evaluated. The Case Analysis is due by noon on every Saturday of the week during the length of the online portion of the course and to be posted on the Online Discussion Board

Each case is to be evaluated in the attached grid, which outlines the important points relevant to the ethical/legal issues in question. The Ethical Case Analysis is to be posted within a message posted on the appropriate thread  of the Discussion Board.

Ethic Case Analysis Outline:

1. Summary of the case presented and identify the ethical problem in the case

2. Describe the nature and dimensions of the ethical dilemma

3. Identify specific current ACA, AMHCA, AAMFT, and ASCA ethical codes and Florida Statutes that may have bearing - Do not use the ethical codes of APA or NASW since their codes have no bearing on the practice of masters level professional counselors.

4. Identify what potential courses of action can be taken and potential consequences for each option

5. Identify the best course of action to be taken in this case

Ethical Analysis of Case # ____: ____________

Name: _________________________  Date: _______________

Tips for Improving Ethical Case Analysis Grids

1. Research in the ACA, AMHCA, AAMFT, and ASCA ethical codes and Florida Statutes for principles which are related to this case and be ready to identify them in the paper using the Template examples of referencing them. Never put a complete section of a Code into your grid just put the letter or number of the principle and paraphrase it in a short phrase and put in a citation from the Code. Do not use the ethical codes of APA or NASW since their codes have no bearing on the practice of masters level professional counselors.

2. Research in the Textbook for issues which the authors say counselors must take into consideration when facing cases like the one you are analyzing. If you cite the text in your grid be sure you have page number where the authors said what you are citing.

3. Use a journal article-which you can get from the Argosy online library- in each of your case analyses and be sure the journal article is referenced in your grid.

4. This is an Ethics analysis and not a best practices of counseling analysis so be sure you have your ethical reasoning hats on and not just looking at the case with your counseling training eyes.

5. You must look at these cases from multiple options since there is intentionally not a lot of information offered so that you cannot approach the case with a Black and White perspective. Ethical thinking allows you to look at a multiple set of options to be pursued with an understanding of the consequence of following each of the options.

6. It is important in analyzing ethical situations that counselors recognize that there are six basic moral principles which form the highest level of ethical functioning by counselors. These are pointed out on pp 17-19 in Corey, et al. They are:

   1. autonomy

   2. Nonmaleficence

   3. beneficence

   4. justice

   5. fidelity

   6. veracity.

   It is strongly recommended and essentially required that you utilize these six concepts in analyzing your seven cases in the weekly case studies. Using these principles will help you to clearly identify the Ethical Issue, Nature of the Ethical Issue and the Dimension of the Ethical Issue.

   • Ethical Issue: The Ethical Issue is which of the six basic moral principles is most involved in the content and material of the case.

   • Nature of the Ethical Issue of the case is determined by the six principles. Taking each principle and look at the case with these principles in mind to decide what really is going on in the case from an ethical perspective

   • Dimensions of an Ethical issue in a case means that you will need to use your senses when exploring a case and see how it looks, how it sounds, how it feels, how it smells and how it tastes. You will need to look at the size of it, breadth of it, implications of it, potential outcomes of it, impact on others of it, why it is important to address, what the possible negative outcomes which could come from handling it wrong, etc. You utilize the six principles in this analysis so that you then can clearly define the over-riding ethical issue  in this case.

7. You must keep your grid responses crisp, to the point and not overloaded with verbiage and keep it to close to the the 1000 word minimum. You have only the grid o utilize to analyze the case in the key areas so be exact, specific, precise, and clear.

8. You are to post the grid within the message of a posting on the appropriate thread on the Discussion Board by Noon of the day the analysis is due.

Housekeeping Chores to improve your ONLINE responses to all Assignment and your Ethical Case Analyzes.

1. Use of Journal Article: this must be an actual journal article which relates to the ethical issue identified in the case. You are not allowed to use a website as an article. The article must come from a legitimate professional counseling related journal. You can get these articles from the Argosy Online Library. You must cite the article as you discuss the case in your case analysis. You must put in an APA style reference for the article in the appropriate box.

2. Use of citations from Textbook: It is important to have an APA style reference in the appropriate box for the sections of the textbook you used to complete your case analysis.

3. Codes of Ethics: You must identify principles by number and name from ACA, AMHCA, ASCA, and AAMFT codes of ethics. You do not need to describe them. You must have more than one principle from each code of ethics - ideally no less than 3 and more than 6 principles from  code of ethics.

4. Options: It is important that you have three distinct options listed. It is important that each option is completely different from the others and not just a variation of another option. Finally you must select only ONE of the options and describe why you chose this one option. You defend your choice by citations from textbook and citatation from journal article you used.

5. Spelling and Grammar Errors: It is important to try to eliminate your spelling and grammar errors. For this reason you ought to do your grid in a Word Document first. Then do a spelling and grammar check. You will lose credit if your spelling and grammar errors are too glaring. Another reason for doing your grid in a work document is that you can save it so that just in case there is a catastrophe like the case analysis thread disappearing you will have the back up copy to resubmit.
   Ethical Analysis vs Counseling Analysis: This is analysis of an ethical issue not the analysis of a counseling session. Please try not to get into too much detail how one would counsel the client, but rather how one would handle the client in an appropriate ethical manner. In some cases they are very distinct and different.

    

Instructions for My Personal Ethical Policies and Procedures Manual