ASSIGNMENT

Imagine you are dealing with a troublesome justice-involved client. Your supervisor is concerned about your ability to maintain professional ethics when you have conflicting or unclear personal values. Before you engage with the client, your supervisor has asked you to write a self-assessment to ensure you can deliver quality care.

Write a 600- to 1,200-word self-assessment. Consider your personal values, beliefs, and biases, which have the potential to affect the standard of care you provide. Address the following:

• Describe one situation which you have experienced or which you might experience, while working as a support services professional, which conflicts with your personal values or beliefs.
• Explain how the situation conflicts with your personal values or beliefs and identify any potential biases that you may have. Outline the dilemma and your possible choices.
• Choose one set of code of ethics. Explain which element(s) and how they would help you avoid making a choice which would violate professional ethics.
• Explain how your resolution to the conflict (the choice you made) would be in the best interest of the client.