Building Your Ethical Self in Social Works Administration

This training explores the origins of personal ethics, along with ways to use our ethics in working with clients. Using a model for thinking about ethics in a practical, real-world action-focused manner, this seminar uses lectures, videos and personal reflection activities as building blocks to renewed self awareness of personal ethical behaviour. Knowing when – or how – to do the right thing has never been easy. Behaving ethically is even harder in today’s fast-paced world of fluid values and changing social climate. The increasingly present expectation to tweak personal ethics in service of compassion, workplace requirements, cultural issues or sheer mental/physical exhaustion further complicates the dilemma of knowing when – and how to do the right thing. Beginning with a new way to look at ethics-in-practice, participants will discover a fresh awareness of their own ethics and will gain practical tips for ethical behaviour that promote common ground. Concrete techniques for behaving ethically in an increasingly fragmented world, without compromising personal values, will be presented.

Objectives

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Identify the difference between legal issues and ethical issues.
• Use a three-part model to resolve ethical issues with all populations, inclusive of culture, age and socioeconomics.
• Identify three stages of power and how to move between them, as a means of measuring ethical development.
• Use the relationship of hidden values in personal, cultural and clinical settings to promote ethical development; and
• List at least three reasons why one – and five -minute activities promote ethical development.

Content

• Introductions
• Expectations Defining Professional Ethics
• The difference between Legal and Ethical
• The Case of the Three Dimes
• What vs Why
• A Model for thinking about ethics
• Professional Practices
• Clinical policies that reflect professional ethics
• Personal Values
• Three types of Power
• Pulling it all together
• When this won’t work with clients
• Strategies for helping others to become more ethical
• Setting the stage with kindness and happy stories
• One-to-five-minute activities
• Clinical practices that promote professional ethics
• Putting it all together
• The Magic Monastery

For Whom

Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors, Therapists, Psychiatrists and Nurses

Training Methodology

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.