FRHD 4310 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Informed Consent, Ethics, Confidentiality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 4310
• Professor: Pitt

Document Summary

Essential elements of self-determination: promoting self-determination is the basis of helping professions, freedom to choose, knowledge and information, involvement in decision making, access to resources, control and informed consent. Professional issues: key concepts and definitions: values, beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living, ethics, law. Levels of ethical practice: mandatory ethics, professionals comply with minimal standards, acknowledging the basic. Codes of ethics: importance of codes of ethics, protect the public safeguard wellbeing. If you lie to others, are you willing to have others lie to you. Intellectual pleasure: shift from quantitative to qualitative measure of happiness. 6 moral principles to guide decision making: autonomy, promotion of self-determination. Important to think about cultural sensitivity independence vs. interdependence: nonmaleficence, avoid doing harm, beneficence, promoting good for others, justice, be fair by giving equally to others, fidelity, fulfilling one"s responsibilities to trust in a relationship, veracity, truthfulness. The helping professional a person and professional.