Ethics is important topic today and it was always - discussion about ethic counts centuries; Aristotle, (384-322 BC) under his famous phrase “We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us” talked about ethics; even earlier Confucius (551-479 BC) defining one’s behavior in moral perspective as “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.” Looking at present definitions of ethics we can see that they are not far from its ancestors, - “Ethics is … about deciding how we ought to behave with others. It’s about our obligation and right with respect to others” (Gini, 2010, p.738). The role of ethics is important for society because it provides of the basic knowledge and standard. However, concept of ethics, despite of the
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There are studies related to mental care services and ethics, but most of them are peripheral (Ehlen, & Sprenger, 1998; Roohi, Asayesh, Abdollahi, & Abbasi, 2011). The main focus of healthcare field researchs are ethical problems (Radden, 2002), moral applications (Abma & Widdershoven, 2006) and guidelines for ethics (Koivisto Koivisto, Janhonen, Latvala, & Väisänen, 2001), but only from the perspective of the employees. Accordingly Chiu, Ching, Chun-Yu, Ching, Pi-Shan and Ching (2006) suggest that studies about patient satisfaction for medical staffs in terms of their ethical behavior may be conducted to gather insights about client concerns, needs, anticipations and complaints. The authors state that such kind of research would be helpful for identifying ethical problems in healthcare service organizations (Chiu et al., 2006). Accordingly, answering questions related to mental disability services is important to ensure the quality number of factors; among other important factors are, lives of PIDs – who are directly affected by the service, relatives’ satisfaction which are main evaluators of the service, emotional health of the employees – who are main sources of service,. However little is known about such ethical challenges as service quality evaluation gaps, impacts on employees, on PIDs and clients and its
There are studies related to mental care services and ethics, but most of them are peripheral (Ehlen, & Sprenger, 1998; Roohi, Asayesh, Abdollahi, & Abbasi, 2011). The main focus of healthcare field researchs are ethical problems (Radden, 2002), moral applications (Abma & Widdershoven, 2006) and guidelines for ethics (Koivisto Koivisto, Janhonen, Latvala, & Väisänen, 2001), but only from the perspective of the employees. Accordingly Chiu, Ching, Chun-Yu, Ching, Pi-Shan and Ching (2006) suggest that studies about patient satisfaction for medical staffs in terms of their ethical behavior may be conducted to gather insights about client concerns, needs, anticipations and complaints. The authors state that such kind of research would be helpful for identifying ethical problems in healthcare service organizations (Chiu et al., 2006). Accordingly, answering questions related to mental disability services is important to ensure the quality number of factors; among other important factors are, lives of PIDs – who are directly affected by the service, relatives’ satisfaction which are main evaluators of the service, emotional health of the employees – who are main sources of service,. However little is known about such ethical challenges as service quality evaluation gaps, impacts on employees, on PIDs and clients and its