Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Ethics in Human Services

• Unit Code

  CSV2116

• Year

  2016

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

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Description

This unit provides students with a range of frameworks for ethical thinking and the opportunity to work through a range of ethical principles and problems relevant to a wide range of human services contexts. The student will engage in informed ethical argument in professional controversies and be aware of the significance of ethical conduct in professional matters.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV3116, CSV3120, CSV4116, HSA3105, YWK3207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to dilemmas commonly found in their profession.
2. Demonstrate how ethical perspectives have implications for professional decision making.
3. Identify codes of professional practice.
4. Identify professional issues that have ethical dimensions.
5. Outline alternative ways in which ethical issues are viewed within different philosophical traditions.

Unit Content

1. Classifying ethical frameworks, including deontological, consequentialist and virtue-based frameworks.
2. Ethical relativism, diversity and religious and cultural beliefs.
3. Ethics and financial duties, sexual conduct and response to violence.
4. Ethics and the professional relationship.
5. Ethics, cultural identity and gender.
6. Power and self-interest.
7. Professional codes of ethics.
8. The importance of ethics in a pluralist professional context.
9. Trust, dependency and confidentiality.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars, case studies, on-line discussions, presentations, use of web-based materials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

Text References

• ^ Hinman, L. M. (2013). Ethics: A pluralistic approach to moral theory (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
• Loewenberg, F., Dolgoff, R., & Harrington, D. (2000). Ethical decisions for social work practice (6th ed.). Itasca, IL: Peacock.
• La Follette, H. (Ed.). (2000). The Blackwell guide to ethical theory. London: Blackwell.
• Clark, C. (2000). Social work ethics: Politics, principles and practice. London: Macmillan.
• Bond, T. (2000). Standards and ethics for counselling in action (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
• Banks, S. (2006). Ethics and values in social work (3rd ed.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Martin, M. W. (2006). Everyday morality: An introduction to applied ethics (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Corey, G. Corey, M.S., Callanan, P. (2007). Issues and ethics in the helping professions (7th ed.). Monterey,CA: Brooks/Cole.

^ Mandatory reference

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