Book:
• Parsons, R., & Dickinson, K.L. (2016). Ethical Practice in the Human Services. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.

Read Chapters:
• 11: Efficacy of Treatment
• 12: Evaluation and Accountability
• Chapter 7 as well for the essay
Additional Reading:
• NY Times “The Ethicist” reading – choose any 5-6 columns to read and review the ethical decision making discussed.
• https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist

PowerPoints:
• Please see two uploaded files.

Assignment #1
Write-Up:
Please read the following prompt and respond with a post of 250 words.
In chapters 11 and 12, the authors discuss a general theme of responsibility on the part of the human services professional to gain education, potential licensing, continuing education, consultation/supervision etc. Interestingly, human services professionals are in the business of helping others – yet in order to help others, we also must continually strive to learn and grow as professional helpers.
• What are some reasons you see for the focus of continued learning in the field?
• How does this impact professionals in the field in general?
• How does this contribute to ethical practice?
• Are there any additional “requirements” that you’d like to see for human services professionals?

Assignment #2 Essay: Ethics Vignette
Please read the attached document (see below), which contains a scenario highlighting some ethically concerning behaviors. Students will then write an essay discussing the concerning behavior and utilize an ethical decision-making model to determine what steps to take to resolve the problem. The paper should include the following headings and content within each heading:
1. Introduction: Please describe the ethically concerning behaviors that you observed in the vignette.
2. Step-Wise Model: As Jane and Henry’s coworker, use the “Step-Wise Model” for ethical decision-making taught in Chapter 7 of your textbook and discuss how you would go through each of the steps to come up with a method of intervening.
3. Advice: If you were able to speak with Jane and Henry before this scenario occurred, what practical advice and/or alternative solutions would you have given them in order to avoid the scenario that occurred?
4. Personal Reflection: How is this formal decision-making model similar and/or different from your intuitive thought process? Did the steps of the model alert you to anything unique that you might not have considered otherwise?
The essay should be 3 full pages of text, plus a title page and reference page. No abstract needed. Paper should be in proper APA format.

HMS 320 Ethics Vignette Paper (using the Step-Wise Decision-Making Model)
One day, Jane, a human service employee at MHC (a mental health clinic in your area) showed up to work a few minutes late. She rushed past the front desk clerk, Henry, and noticed that several client files had fallen on the ground and were scattered on the floor behind his desk. Given her tardiness, she stepped over the files and lightly kicked them back toward Henry’s desk so he would see them after he was finished checking a patient into the clinic. As an added precaution, Jane decided to send Henry an email from her Gmail account on her phone to let him know to clean the files up around his desk. As Jane walked into the meeting, she sent this email to Henry: “Hey Henry! As I was just walking by your desk, I noticed that the case files for Jimmy Ordy and Susan West were on the floor. I overheard Dr. Rex talking about those patients in the kitchen yesterday and he said they both have really severe diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcohol addiction. Probably want to be sure you pick those up so their private information isn’t seen by anyone else. Let’s grab lunch later today!” As Jane finished off the email, she leaned over to you (her co-worker) and told you the above scenario. You immediately have some concerns about some of these behaviors. If you could pause time and implement the Step-Wise decision-making model, what would that look like