The Importance Of Issues And Ethics In The Helping Professions

Chapter one of issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions covers a lot more than I expected. When I started the first chapter of this text , “Introduction to Professional Ethics,” I truly thought it was just a text on stuff I was going to have to memorize however it was clear real fast that the author not only wanted the reader to read but to engage in it and understand what was going on. I could tell this because of the way the end of chapter assessments were they were at the end of the chapter yet it was suggested to take them in the beginning before you even read the chapter and the end after you read the chapter to see the difference. You were to think in gray-unknown way rather than a black and white way as stated in the text. What I took a way from this chapter was that the author was trying to get the reader to …show more content…
However, even so I am looking forward to reading future chapters and learning more about ethics. I would also like to inform you that my favorite part of this chapter would have to be on page 13, where it says “When the word unethical is used, people think of extreme violations of established codes. In reality, most violations of ethics probably happen quite inadvertently in clinical practice. The ethics codes of most professional organizations require practitioners to engage in self-monitoring and to take responsibility for misconduct.” This meaning that mistakes and things that aren’t supposed to happen are going to happen but you need to take responsibility and clam your own faults. I believe that not enough people do that in this work area even though it is stated that that is what is required. Moreover, I really apprenticed how it writer stated that unethical doesn’t mean that there was an extreme violation because that’s what I assumed unethical meant. Now understanding this I now understand more about what the ethic codes are and what they are