Teen pregnancy affects millions of adolescent clients and their families every year. As a human service professional working with adolescents and families, you will build reciprocal relationships that make a lasting impact on both the client and yourself. Understanding how the environment is impacting the client and their family helps build the trust required to better understand what interventions and resources may be available to empower the client and their family. In the field of human services, you will be interacting with individuals with a variety of needs within many systems, especially when working with families. Due to the span of diversity among individuals, it is important for you to become familiar with the ethical standards as set forth for human service professionals.
The following Assignment will require you to find and discuss the importance of the ethical standards as developed by the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS). A code of ethics is “an explicit statement of the values, principles, and rules of a profession, regulating the conduct of its members” (Barker, 2001, p. 84). Understanding how to consider ethical issues and how we may resolve them using ethical standards is critical to successful and ethical client outcomes and ensuring both the human service professional and the client are protected from potential conflicts.
Assignment Directions
For this Assignment, you will be reading a case scenario in your text and responding to some questions related to the impact of the environment on behavior and choices, the impact of the client-human services professional relationship, and how identifying potential ethical issues and the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) Ethical Standards can help guide you in working with clients.
Begin by reading the case study in your text (page 309), Spotlight 6.2: Portrait of a Single Father. Then, go to the NOHS website and review the Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals.
After reading the case study and NOHS Ethical Standards, use the Unit 4 Assignment Template to reflect on the situation Gary finds himself in, his environment, and the possible ethical considerations in the case that the human service professional may need to consider as part of an ethical approach to the client and his family.
Please address the following:
Discuss how Gary’s environment has influenced his behavior and decision-making during his adolescence.
Discuss how working with a Human Service Professional (HSP) in a reciprocal relationship may help Gary change his behavior and decision-making to address his current life challenges.
Considering the case study details and the NOHS Ethical Standards, identify one ethical concern you would have when working with Gary and/or his family. Choose one specific NOHS Ethical Standard that you believe would be important to apply in this case to ensure this ethical issue is addressed within the client and HSP relationship. Identify and discuss the specific NOHS Ethical Standard (taken directly from the NOHS site) in your response. Be sure to include proper citation for your selected standard.
Discuss one specific way using ethical standards impacts the behavior of a HSP when working with clients such as Gary.
Provide the name and contact information for one human service agency you believe a HSP could refer Gary to in order to provide assistance with his current issues. Identify some specific services and support that this agency could provide to assist Gary and explain why these are helpful to the client.
Considering your responses to the assignment questions, explain how Gary’s case outcome might change from the ending offered in the case study epilogue. Discuss how knowledge of ethical standards and available resources can strengthen the relationship between the Human Service Professional and Gary in your response.
Assignment Guidelines
Your Assignment should be 2–3 pages, not including the title and reference pages, and should include the following elements:
Title page: Provide your name, section number, and date
Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs
Your responses should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language, and be free of spelling and grammatical errors. The writing and writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of human service theories.
Reference page: Sources in APA format
You must use at least two sources in this paper. One can be your text and the other should be an NOHS reference.
Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and left aligned
Use standard 1″ margins on all sides
Use 6th Edition APA formatting and citation style throughout your paper
If you need assistance with APA style, please visit the Writing Center.
Please remember that your Assignment must be your original work; plagiarism will not be tolerated. It is always important to attribute credit to the proper sources when relying on the text, articles, websites, or other sources.
As a reminder, you must credit your work when you:
Summarize concepts and theories that you learned in the text, articles, or Internet sources.
Use others’ ideas, theories, and concepts in constructing discussion question responses or completing projects.
Use direct quotes in the context of your project (when quoting directly, you must use quotation marks).
You can also refer to the Writing with Integrity guide found under Academic Tools for additional help and resources for proper citation strategies.
This Assignment assesses the following Course Outcomes:
HN144-3: Explain how human service professionals and clients influence each other’s behavior.
HN144-4: Apply ethical standards from the NOHS to support a professional relationship between a client and a human service professional.
GEL-7.05: Evaluate the ethical rules applicable to human services.
PC-2.3: Demonstrate integrity through the application of relevant codes of conduct and social responsibility within one’s profession.
Submitting Your Assignment
Use the provided Unit 4 Assignment Template. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit, select the Unit 4 Assignment Dropbox and upload your file. To view your graded work after your instructor has evaluated it, please visit your Gradebook.
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