Human Service Professional Ethics Case Study

A human service professional play a significant part in the helping process in today’s culture by working with various specialists to help assist individuals, communities, and groups. Human service professional’s intentions are to help improve the quality of their client’s lives. All human professionals perform the same tasks in their profession by identifying the problem for the client’s needs, creating a plan to overcome obstacles, and putting the plan into action. While making these plans the human service professional should keep in consideration the code of ethics.
The codes of ethics clarify the professional responsibilities and provide guidance; it helps the relationship between the client and clinician to develop and averts harmful …show more content…
Sometimes the clinicians who find it difficult to not over share; this can hurt the helping process. Reggie and Todd are in a homosexual relationship. If the clinician has negative views and feelings about gay relationships; this can prohibit Reggie and Todd from getting all the help they are seeking from the human service professional. The clinician should not judge the couple due to their sexual preference and write them off, but remember what brought the couple to seek professional help. In the same sense, personal values can be helpful to some clients. The clinician and client may share the same personal values, so the client may feel more comfortable knowing the clinician can relate to the situation. Personal values are what a person conception is good; important, useful, desirable, beneficial to our own needs (Murphy & Dillion, …show more content…
Therapists have to protect the victim and specific guidelines have been established for therapists when dealing with clients who present a serious danger of violence to another. As a human service professional I would assess the risk of violence, these types of offenders are more predictable by studying the history of violence in the offenders past. When the clinician becomes to invested in the couple’s relationship to make it better, this can make the clinician miss important data to provide us with vital information to help the couple more accurately during the clinical intervention. By not reporting the violent behaviors to the proper authority that are exhibited from Reggie towards Todd; this can lead to a potential risk in the future. The clinician should notify the proper authorities to initiate an involuntary commitment to a mental health facility (“Ethical Implications in Cases Involving Domestic Violence,”