Imagine you are dealing with a
troublesome justice-involved client. Your supervisor is concerned about your
ability to maintain professional ethics when you have conflicting personal
values. Before you engage with the client, your supervisor asks you to write a self-assessment
to ensure you can deliver quality care.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word
self-assessment of how your personal values, beliefs, and biases have a
potential to affect the standard of care you provide. Include the following:
- Identify a situation that you are
likely to encounter as a support services professional that conflicts
with your personal values or beliefs. - Describe how the situation conflicts
with your personal values or beliefs and identify any potential biases
that you may have. - Explain how ethical guidelines can help
you to overcome the challenges with your conflicting values, beliefs, and
biases. - Explain how you will ensure quality
care is provided, despite your beliefs, values, and biases.
Cite a minimum of 2 sources to
support your ethical response.
Format your assignment according to
APA guidelines.
**My Personal Values: Faith in God, generosity, care (for others and myself), honesty,
sympathy, advocacy, loyalty, service, truthfulness, order, integrity, compassion,
empathy and dignity
**Beliefs_ Practices:
I believe in and practice assertiveness, altruism—self-sacrifice,
mindfulness, becoming and being whoever/whatever I need to be for others in
their time of need
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It’s hard for me to see someone suffer – my
kindness has made me vulnerable in some situations.
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There may have been some situations where I
may have crossed personal and even professional boundaries due to eagerness to
help someone seemingly in distress.
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I
tend to think the best of others’ intentions and practices – giving them the
benefit of doubt—mostly those I think are deserving.