Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition

By Kim Strom-Gottfried

Book Overview

How does one make the right choices when faced with ethical dilemmas? Social service professionals use a unique set of principles to guide their decisions within a broad and complex array of situations. Straight Talk about Professional Ethics, Second Edition provides readers with the guidelines that will help them make decisions in a manner that is clinically and ethically effective. This book explains the seven core concepts that guide ethical practice in the helping professions: self-determination, informed consent, competence, confidentiality and privacy, attention to conflicts of interest, maintenance of professional boundaries, and professionalism and integrity. Developing a commitment to the ethics of a profession and an understanding of how those ethics apply to commonly occurring workplace situations is a major element of professional preparation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190615478
• ISBN13: 9780190615475
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"