Summary
Employers seek to hire individuals that are critical thinkers, trustworthy, and wise decision-makers. Practitioners in the field are expected to demonstrate ethical and professional processes to dilemmas with both humility and confidence. In this assignment, the practical approach of applying professional ethics codes, ethical decision-making models, and personal value systems, provides skills for immediate use within the potential career roles that have a direct benefit for employers and organizations.
You are tasked to bring your knowledge of ethics to macro-and micro-level applications. You are then expected to demonstrate best practices in ethical decision-making processes, which are important to a variety of sectors within professional fields. Through experience and interaction with professional ethical codes, you have the opportunity to develop a level of understanding to purposefully implement new ways and best practices of engagement with individuals, systems, and society. You use your knowledge of professional ethics, combined with your own personal ethics and Christian worldview, to develop an understanding of how to engage with, and provide high-quality services to others.
You are presented with a vignette/scenario with an ethical dilemma to work through using:
- A professional ethics code
- An ethical decision-making model
- Personal values system
- Christian worldview approach Scenario/Vignette: Ethics and Psychology: Vignette Warehouse (37) (Link on Overview page).-https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/p/vignette-warehouse.html#google_vignette
Instructions Part 1 | PROFFESOR HAS ASSIGNED-
- Introduce the Dilemma from the Vignette that your instructor assigned to you for exploration.
- Include a description of the key players in the scenario.
- Include the context of the dilemma.
- Title this section of your paper as “Dilemma”.
- Identify the ethical violations.
- Identify these violations broadly. Later, you will delineate principles and standards that were specifically violated.
- Title this section of your paper as “Ethical Violations”.
- Describe and research the potential legal issues.
- Include specific considerations for the location in which the vignette occurs (i.e. country or state-specific).
- Data including vulnerable populations (minors, the elderly, those with intellectual disability, inmates, etc.)
- Title this section of your paper, “Legal Issues”.
- Identify the ethical code that you plan to apply to the scenario.
- You can choose from any ethical code presented in this class:
- APA: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (opens in new window).
- 2014 ACA Code of Ethics (opens in new window).
- AACC Code of Ethics (opens in new window).
- Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists (opens in new window).
- If you want to use a different code, you must get explicit permission from the instructor to do so prior to turning in your assignment.
- Provide justification for the selection of the code.
- Title this section of your paper as “Ethical Code”.
Requirements
- Citation Requirements: minimum of 2 citations for steps 2, 3, and 4
- Word Count: 750–1,250 body – not including APA component
- APA Formatting