PHIL 2135 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nursing Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Moral Agency
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The client, however, has the responsibility to make the decision: to make the decision in an informed way, the client must also become educated on the options available and deliberate rationally about them. What are some circumstances in which this can occur? (see the article by kupfer and klatt, r&z, Although it is somewhat important, you may ignore their account of first and second-order autonomy, r&z, 312-313. : whenever clients ask for or demand behavior that conflicts with the professionals" convictions or values. Integrity requires acting consistently with our commitments, yet clients may have legitimate competing claims on us. Mightn"t empowering a client to do something which the counselor believes is immoral compromise the counselor"s integrity: besides autonomy, most counselors value individuality and equality. Regardless of the level, the objective of empowerment means that the counselor seems called upon to help the client realize goals and values with which she herself may disagree.
