WELCOME Ethics in Prevention Corvallis, OR July 14, 2005

1. WELCOMEEthics in PreventionCorvallis, ORJuly 14, 2005

2. Introductions

3. Expectations?

4. Mindset • Why should we learn about prevention ethics? • As prevention professionals, our decisions can directly affect people’s lives • People need to be able to trust us for our work to be effective • We have professional responsibilities to the public, our service recipients, and to our colleagues

5. Training Objectives • Explore ethical issues in prevention • Apply an ethical code of conduct to prevention practices • Utilize a decision making model to resolve ethical issues • Identify steps for creating a code of professional practice

6. Training Outline • Part I: Defining Ethics • Part II: Confidentiality • Part III: Think Tank Code of Ethical Conduct • Part IV: Ethical Decision Making Model • Part V: Code of Professional Practice

7. Ground Rules

8. Part I:Defining Ethics

9. Activity • How do you define ethics for prevention? • Why is it important to define ethics? • For each activity, identify a facilitator, time-keeper, recorder, and reporter • Everyone participates as a contributor to the discussion

10. Definitions of Ethics • Webster’s: • Ethics: “The principles of conduct governing an individual or group.”

11. Definitions of Ethics continued • BrainyDictionary, www.brainydictionary.com • Ethics: “The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerning duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.”

12. Part II:Confidentiality

13. Discussion • How do confidentiality issues affect your prevention work? • Where do you receive guidance to address confidentiality guidelines?

14. Resource • Ethical Issues in Prevention Practice: Confidentiality, Releases of Information and Limits of Confidentiality • Created and used with permission by Prevention Think Tank, www.preventionthinktank.org

15. Part III:Prevention Think TankCode of Ethical Conduct

16. Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethical Conduct Used with permission from Prevention Think Tank, www.preventionthinktank.org

17. Activity • Review the principle assigned to your group • Respond to the questions in your handout, “Principle Questions”

18. Part IV:Ethical Decision Making Model

19. Ethical Decision Making Model • Clarify the issues • Get the facts • Develop options • Assess the options • Make the decision and test it • Develop a plan for implementing the decision • Implement the plan • Evaluate the plan

20. Ethical Decision Making • From The Grassroots of Ethical Conduct Kit, http://www.cmc.qld.gov.au/GRASSROOTS.html • An ethical dilemma is a situation in which you: • Do not know the right course of action • Are having difficulty doing what you consider right • Find the wrong choice very tempting

21. Activity • Create a detailed story of an ethical dilemma related to prevention (who, what, where, when, why) • If you would like ideas to stimulate your discussion, refer to “Ethical Issues in Prevention”

22. Activity continued • Pass your story to the group next to you • Use steps 1-6 of the decision making model to solve your ethical dilemma

23. Part V:Code of Professional Practice

24. Building a code of ethics for prevention organizations and coalitions • Examine existing resources • Dialogue with professionals in the field

25. Values and principles historically included in ethical codes of conduct

26. Assessing Ethical Qualities of Organizational Culture

27. Activity • Independently complete the assessment of ethical qualities for your organization

28. Activity continued • With your partner, share your reflections about this worksheet. What did you learn? How can your organization improve?

29. Code of Professional Practice – CPP (White & Popovits, 2001) • “An explicitly defined set of beliefs, values, and standards that guide organizational members in the conduct of activities in pursuit of the agency’s mission. The code defines boundaries of appropriate and inappropriate conduct” (p. 13). • The code articulates values for job performance, sets guidelines for encounters or complex situations and daily decision-making, and provides a framework for defining relationship boundaries (p. 13).

30. Code of Professional Practice – CPP (White & Popovits) • Protect the health and safety of, and promote the quality of services provided to, service consumers • Enhance public safety • Protect the integrity and reputation of individual agency staff members • Protect the integrity and reputation of the agency • Embed high standards of ethical and professional conduct within the culture of the organization

31. Steps for Developing a CPP

32. Activity • Refer to “Values and Principles” • Create a policy statement for each value/principle reflecting one way the value could be incorporated into a CPP for Prevention Professionals.

33. Training Objectives • Explore ethical issues in prevention • Apply an ethical code of conduct to prevention practices • Utilize a decision making model to resolve ethical issues • Identify steps for creating a code of professional practice

34. QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION