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Apr 29, 2024
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Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BHAV 412 Human Service Ethics5 credits
This course reviews human service professionals’ responsibilities to themselves, clients, colleagues, and society. This will include moral and legal, proactive and reactive duties. This course facilitates an understanding of ethical standards, the rationale for following them, and ways to resolve dilemmas between competing interests.
Prerequisites: Admission to the BASBH program or other BAS program
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Synthesize common themes in professional associations’ ethical standards or codes of conduct
- Articulate how to support the rights of clients, including their rights to confidentiality, informed consent, self-determination, and least-restrictive treatment options
- Conclude when and how to report suspicions of abuse, exploitation, neglect, danger to self, danger to others, danger to property, or grave disability
- Explain examples of racism, sexism, and other types of discrimination and societal structures or systems which facilitate inequality
- Formulate strategies to avoid the disclosure of personal information which has the potential to interfere with clients’ work toward recovery
- Advocate to the state legislature and executive branch for policy change
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- integrate the needs, roles, and strengths of professionals within healthcare and human services teams
- demonstrate abiding hope in recovery for each and every person
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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