Title: Explore ethical issues that may confront workers in human services.
Course: Introduction to Family and Human Services (19001-18) > Section: Exploring the Human Services Career Pathways

Exploration should include

- analyzing harmful, fraudulent, and deceptive human services practices
- protecting self and others from harm
- respecting diversity
- maintaining confidentiality
- using developmentally-appropriate practices
- maintaining a separation of church and state
- identifying how social media can raise ethical issues in the workplace
- listing possible consequences of unethical behavior.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the goals for working cooperatively in groups?
- What beliefs, actions, or conditions create limits for demonstrating professional behavior in the community? In the workplace?
- What laws support ethical behavior in the workplace?

Communication

- What would be the consequences for not communicating rules, regulations, and policies in the workplace? In the community?
- What religious, cultural, and legal factors affect professional decision making?
- How does the use of social media affect professionalism?

Leadership

- What skills would be beneficial in working cooperatively with others?
- What can be done to inspire a clear vision of professionalism?
- How can social media be used positively and negatively in professional workplaces?

Management

- What happens if one disregards rules, regulations, and policies in the workplace?
- What criteria would one use to determine a person's level of professionalism?
- What might be the long-term consequences of identifying professional resources to be used in the workplace? In families? In the community?