Book:
• Parsons, R., & Dickinson, K.L. (2016). Ethical Practice in the Human Services. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications. ** I have been informed that the writers have access to this book.
• Read Chapters:
o 1: Ethics – Core to Professional Helping
o 2: Helper Variables: What the Helper Brings to the Helping Relationship
Write-Up:
Please read the following prompt and respond with a post of 250 words.
In chapter 2 of your textbook (Parsons & Dickinson, 2016), the authors discuss the value of helpers increasing awareness of their own personal values, beliefs, and expectations and the role they play in giving shape to their professional identity and behavior within their role as a human services professional. The authors also discuss how professional boundaries and maintaining professional detachment and objectivity in service of the client, while never absolute, remains a goal of ethical helping.
• How do you see these two concepts fitting together? What ways can a human services professional both acknowledge their own personal values AND also maintain ethical boundaries and objectivity in service to the client's best interest?
• What would you do if you were working in a mental health agency and you experienced a dilemma between your values and your professional role?
• Who would you talk to about this dilemma?