My personal situation involves a court-ordered family counseling program. The counselor started having sex with my sister, the youngest member of the family, when she was only 14 during the counseling session.
Self-Assessment Reflection Paper Instructions
This assignment requires students to begin to apply ethical principles of social work or human services to guide professional practice. The assignment addresses ethical conflicts that are a natural part of social work practice. A central part of the paper should be a candid, open examination of how your own personal and family ethics, as well as the NASW Code of Ethics, and your personal perceptions, attitudes, values, experiences, emotions, and stereotypes may influence your ability to perform human service work or social work practice.
Students will select an issue with ethical implications (examples include dual relationships, situations where client self-determination may be a factor, issues of respect or professionalism, etc.).
After thoroughly defining and describing the issue you select, write a narrative that includes:
1. Describe personal dimensions of how this problem/situation may have somehow touched your life, including a discussion of your personal ethical standpoint and the origin of that ethical standpoint (you must be reflective in this section).
2. Applies theories/ethics discussed in class and in the required readings to your assessment (Students must use the NASW Code of Ethics for this assignment).
3. The final section should be a thoughtful description of the personal plan you must devise to address these perceived challenges to optimal professional practice, which includes a description of how you will apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions and which demonstrates your ability to tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.
