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Unit 3
Ethical and Professional Issues
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What is your favorite vacation spot?
Growing up, who taught you the most about
ethics, and what did they teach you?
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How would you define the word, Ethics?
Why are ethics important in the field of Crisis
Intervention?
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Use of Paraprofessionals
What do you think about the use of
paraprofessionals in providing crisis intervention?
 Pros?
 Cons?
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Self- Awareness:
Therapeutic awareness: being conscious of
one’s own emotions, values, opinions, and
behavior.
Countertransference: unconsciously
determined attitudinal set held by the therapist
which interferes with his/her work.
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Dual Relationships:
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What are some examples of the type of dual
relationships that are unethical?
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Confidentiality
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What is the benefit of providing confidentiality?
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Privileged Communication
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Abuse Reporting
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Elder
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Child
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Informed Consent
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Clinicians must make sure clients have the ability to
make rational decisions.
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Therapists must give clients information in a clear
way and check their understanding of the risks.
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Clients must consent freely to treatment.
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Supervision and Training
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Burnout and Secondary Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder
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Syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion
involving the development of negative self-concept,
negative job attitudes, and/or a loss of concern and
feelings for clients.
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Symptoms of Burnout:
Headaches
 Fatigue
 Cognitive Impairment
 Illness (Real or Psychosomatic)
 Social Withdrawal
 Substance Abuse
 Deterioration of family and social relationships
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Prevention of Burnout
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What do you think might help prevent burnout?
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Burnout Prevention
Limits
 Balance – Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual
 Variety
 Communication: “Experience and Express”
 Supervision/Relationship with Colleagues
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Questions?