Individual paper on Personal Values and Ethical Standards- Prepare a 1000 to 1400 word paper on the development of your personal values, ground rules, and ethics. Focus on the developmental aspect rather than on a particular position on any issue.
- Define your values, the sources (people, institutions, events, etc.) that helped shape your values, and the criteria and decision-making factors you use today to revise them as necessary.
- Discuss the implications of your values for your work as a Human Services professional.
- Discuss a specific ethical dilemma in relation to the Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals in which you will experience little difficulty due to a concordance between ethical practice and your personal belief system.
- Address a specific ethical dilemma in relation to the Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals in which you either anticipate difficulty, or have experienced difficulty, in ethical practice due to a conflict or discordance between ethical practice and your personal values.
- Briefly discuss each of the following General Principles: the use of psychological tests in the courtroom; the lie detector; boundaries of competence; integrity; sexual harassment; human differences; and the legal definition of insanity.
- Your paper should include an introduction, a conclusion and a resource list.