1. Ethical Issues in Community Work
Chapter 13
Ethical Issues in Community Work
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

2. Final Project Read the case study in the project description
Sarah is a 13-year-old female junior high school student. Sarah's mother has visited your counseling office at Sarah's school and shared her concern for her daughter with you.

3. Final Project
In paragraph format, discuss and describe the following components of working with clients in group counseling:
advantages and disadvantages,
ethical considerations,
working with challenges,
assessing readiness and preparing clients,
reducing risk,
expectations for responsibility/commitment of members.

4. Final Project
Discuss and integrate all of the concepts that we have covered this term including:
ethical concerns when working with clients,
how to assess treatment needs for individuals,
how to encourage clients to actively participate in their treatment,
and ways to help clients recognize and work with their strengths and challenges.

5. Final Project Addresses each of the following areas:
Why might you consider Sarah a good candidate for group counseling?
What do you see as the potential advantages and disadvantages of such interaction for Sarah?
Describe the type of group that would potentially serve Sarah best. What are your ethical concerns for placing Sarah in a group counseling environment?

6. Final Project
What types of challenges might Sarah encounter in a group environment? How can you, as her counselor, hope to mitigate the impact of such outcomes? What are your legal and ethical concerns in this regard, if any?
Why do you feel that Sarah is ready for the honest open communication that is expected in group counseling environments? How might you assist her in becoming more communicative?

7. Final Project Use appropriate references to course material.
How might you prepare Sarah for common components of group counseling such as group pressure to conform and scapegoating?
As the group’s leader, what will be your plan to reduce potential risks to the group’s members and what will be your expectations for responsibility and commitment from each group member? What steps will you take to encourage and contribute to such behavioral outcomes?
Use appropriate references to course material.

8. Final Project
Structure: Evidence of complete paragraphs, including introductory and concluding paragraphs. Has proper sentence structure, as well as clear and logical organization throughout. Primarily student’s own words with quotes used very sparingly. Includes at least 2 references in support of observations.

9. Final Project
Mechanics: Uses correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Double-spaced paper that meets the 4-6 page length (total of 5-7 pages including the cover page and reference page).

10. Four Facets of Comprehensive Community Counseling Programs
1. Direct community services
preventive education
2. Indirect community service
influencing policymakers
3. Direct client services
focuses on outreach activities
4. Indirect client services
client advocacy
Issues and Ethics - Chapter 13 (1)
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

11. Social Justice Perspective
The SJP rests on the assumption that all people have a right to equitable treatment and a fair allocation of societal resources, including decision making.
Some of the ethics codes refer to the role of social justice advocacy as an ethical mandate.
The goal of counseling is to promote the empowerment of people who are marginalized and oppressed in our society.
To translate this paradigm shift into one’s actual counseling practice, it is necessary to acquire a set of social justice and advocacy competencies.
Issues and Ethics - Chapter 13 (2)
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

12. Human Service Practitioner
Duties involve:
Ability to support community needs
Develop partnerships in creation and delivery of services
Promote community organization and development of activities
Outreach
Develop strategies to empower the community
Issues and Ethics - Chapter 13 (5)
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

13. Human Service Practitioner
Duties involve:
Influencing policymakers
Consultation with community agencies
Evaluating human-services programs
Advocate and assist with initiatives
Develop and build community assets
Issues and Ethics - Chapter 13 (6)
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

14. Relationships Between Counselor and the Agency
Counselors who are dissatisfied with an agency or the system may decide to:
subvert it any way they can.
conform to institutional policies out of fear.
make compromises between institutional demands and personal requirements.
leave the agency.
Issues and Ethics - Chapter 13 (7)
Corey, 8e, ©2011, Brooks/ Cole – Cengage Learning

15. Community Action
What are some areas in your community that are in need of change?
What can you do as a human service professional to initiate change in your community?

16. End of Course Discussion
What is the most important thing you have learned this quarter?
How can you apply what you have learned to the human service profession?
What were you surprised to learn?
What was the most important thing you learned?

17. End of Term Announcements
Final Project Due:
February 14, 2012 by 12:00 ET
All late work due:
February 21, 2011
I cannot accept anything after this date
Thank you for a great quarter and I wish you all the best!

18. Quote and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others Helen Keller