CJHS 311 UOPX Proposed Organizational Standard for Ethical Decision Making Paper Ethics for the CD Counselor Discussion Answer the following in 500-600

CJHS 311 UOPX Proposed Organizational Standard for Ethical Decision Making Paper Ethics for the CD Counselor

Discussion

Answer the following in 500-600 words:

You are a supervising chemical dependency counselor at an intensive treatment facility. In this role, you facilitate group sessions, individual counseling sessions, and family therapy sessions for alcohol and substance abuse clients and their families. In addition to the above-described direct treatment, you also supervise several other counselors in a residential program.

Client relationships are the core of this profession. Forming and maintaining appropriate, professional relationships is of the utmost significance when it comes to successfully helping clients, and this is a core concept of training.

Prepare a memo to the new counselors under your supervision. The purpose of the memo is to inform the counselors of the potential ethical issues they could face that deal with their relationships with clients.

In your memo, please provide the following information:

Interoffice Memorandum
To: New chemical dependency counselors
From: Supervising counselor
Subject: Potential ethical issues
Date: mo/date/year

As a chemical dependency counselor, the counselor/client relationship is paramount to the client’s success in treatment. There must be a level of trust between the client and the counselor for the client to be successful in treatment. To develop and grow that trust, the counselor and the client must have a thorough understanding of the client’s rights as well as the counselor’s duties or obligations to the client. The counselor must also avoid engaging in behaviors that can compromise that relationship and destroy that trust.

Section 1: List and briefly describe the basic principles that relate to client rights including, but not limited to, the following:
The right to be informed
The right to privacy and confidentiality
Section 2: List and briefly describe the basic duties and/or obligations you have to your clients including, but not limited to, the following:
Maintaining clients dignity and promote their welfare
Behaving ethically
Maintaining level of competence
Section 3: List and briefly describe 3 potential ethical issues chemical dependency counselors could face as a result of their relationship with clients.
Sexual relationship with a client
Improperly transmit or improperly protect a client’s private health information
May place third party at risk.

Your memo should have 3 separate sections: 1 section for each of the questions listed above.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Individual Project

Answer the following in 2-4 pages:

Your manager has given you a new assignment. It is time to update the employee handbook. You will be creating information to add to the handbook. You are to outline the following factors in the tables provided below:

Table 1:

Provide information and support for a proposed Computer and Internet Use policy. Discuss the important factors to be considered when creating a Computer and Internet Use policy and why they are important. Remember, you are trying to convince your manager to use your language in the handbook update, so support your position using 2014 ACA Code of Ethics Subsections, HIPAA, etc.

Table 2:

Draft language for a proposed organizational standard for ethical decision making. This should describe a step-by-step process for making critical decisions about potential ethical dilemmas faced by counselors. This process should include, where appropriate, reference to the ethical code at the state level or a model code from a nationally recognized organization.

Important Factor Why is it important? Supporting Information
1. Data maintained in electronic formats must be secured using the best security.
2. Access to client health information must be appropriately limited.
3. All electronically stored data must be destroyed as soon as the information is no longer needed for treatment purposes or required to be kept in client records.
4. Systems are appropriate to the client’s needs and the provision of these services must take place in a nondiscriminatory fashion.
5. Software must be designed for a specific function and in a manner that is safe for our clients.
6. Inform clients of the benefits and limitations of the technology. Counselors must determine whether our clients are intellectually, emotionally, and physically capable of using the technology.
7. Technology to use is in compliance with any federal, state, and local laws.
8. All personal must be appropriately trained.
Steps Description of Steps State Ethical Code or Model Code Reference
Identify the problem.
Determine what ethical, legal, and institutional policies are involved.
Determine potential solutions.
Choose and implement the solution.
Evaluate the results.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Study of Alcohol Use and Abuse

Discussion

Answer the following in 2-4 paragraphs:

Since your last meeting with Mr. Potts, you have learned that because he is home so infrequently, he does not spend much quality time sober with his children. He recently missed their dance recital and their dance competitions. The girls excel at dance and have won numerous awards, none of which Mr. Potts has been around for. Mr. Potts has never missed work because of drinking, although you have learned that he sleeps only 4–5 hours per night and is typically hung over the next day after being out drinking the night before. He has very little patience, chain smokes, and has many regrets in his life (although drinking is not yet one of them). When asked about his children, he appears to know very little about them. He is unable to tell you who each child’s best friend is, what each child’s favorite color is, what television shows they like to watch, what music interests them, or what foods they like to eat. He cannot recall ever doing any activity with either of them, whether individually or together. He is not sure of their schedule, and he has never been to a school parent/teacher conference or any doctor or dentist appointments. However, he is very vocal in his expectation that his children excel in school and get all As. He did disclose that he reviews their report cards to be sure they are getting all As.

Mr. and Mrs. Potts travel frequently as a couple with different retail groups, and these trips are paid for by the manufacturers of the furniture that Mr. Potts carries in his stores. The children do not come on these trips. There are about two per year, each lasting for 1 week. When asked about these trips during an interview, Mrs. Potts’s face elongates and she looks down. She is very guarded in her responses to you as the probation officer. You learn that these trips are a source of great stress for Mrs. Potts because all decisions are left up to her. She decides and plans for the child care for the children when they travel, she does the packing, and she even has to pick out all of Mr. Potts’s clothing. During these trips, Mr. Potts is intoxicated most of the time except the mornings, and Mrs. Potts is left to deal with his intoxication, embarrassing behavior, and other antics.

Mr. Potts has a heart condition and has suffered from three heart attacks in the past 6 years. In addition, he had triple bypass surgery 18 months ago. He takes numerous medications for his heart condition. The doctors have clearly articulated to him that they believe that his years of heavy drinking have impacted the functioning of his heart. They have advised him explicitly that Mr. Potts must stop drinking if he wants to live. Despite this medical advice and his failing heart, he continues to drink and smoke excessively. His wife and children have spent numerous days and nights at the hospital while he recovered from his surgery and heart attacks.

Sarah, the 10-year old, dotes on her father whenever she has the opportunity. She sympathizes with him, gets him beers out of the refrigerator when he is home drinking, and is always trying to take the stress away from the family caused by Mr. Potts’s drinking.

Cindy, the 11-year old, is an angry child. She lashes out verbally and behaviorally at both her parents. Her parents do not know it, but she has recently began self-mutilating behaviors in the form of cutting her forearms, writing the words “help me” with a knife.

Given the additional information that you have learned about the Potts family during your interviews, do the following:

Explain how Mr. Potts’s alcohol-related medical condition has impacted his children and wife.
Use the facts and your knowledge of alcohol abuse and alcoholism to specifically address the impact of the medical condition on each member of the family.

Individual Project

Answer the following in 2-3 page

Given the information you have learned about the Potts family as stated in the scenario in the Week 2 Discussion Board as well as your knowledge of how alcoholism affects children, do the following:

Specifically state how Mr. Potts’s alcohol abuse has affected the children and his relationship with the children.
Additionally, specifically state which role in the family you believe that each member of the family plays (e.g. scapegoat, caretaker, lost child, comic, etc.).
Explain why you believe this member has this particular role.
Based on your knowledge of alcoholism, discuss whether you believe either child or both are at risk to develop an alcohol-related drinking problem and why.