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The workshop focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-social worker and peer-to-peer relationships. Use of a group discussions and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, agency and colleague ethical challenges in the workplace, and building skills in communication, and cooperative confrontation.
Learning Objectives
 Understand the importance of client/patient rights; above and beyond the rights of social work
practitioners and the agencies they represent.
 Examining personal values and personality characteristics that encourage or hinder one’s ability to
step forward and report unethical behavior.
 Evaluate personal responsibility and choices made in one’s practice and how these choices
have/have not prevented further ethical violations or improved ethical practice in the workplace.
 Understand and apply the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), and our ethical
principles and boundaries when making critical decisions in exposing ethical challenges in
practice.
 Demonstrate understanding of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), ethical
principles, and boundaries applied to specific ethical dilemmas when confronting ethical
challenges by co-workers, utilizing the Nine Step Ethical-Decision Making Model.