Ethical Profile Paper

Directions:

You are to write an ethical profile paper that recognizes the formative influence of your family, heroes, and personal style on you as an ethical professional. This paper will provide a profile of you in regards to your ethical and professional practice. You will be required to include information on who you are as an ethical professional, how this course has shaped your unique ethical decision-making style, and the areas in which you feel still need further development.

Include the following four sections in your paper:

1. Ethical Autobiography: First, explain how you think through and determine what is "right" and "wrong" (personally and professionally) in your own daily life. Second, identify four examples of ethical behaviors and explain how your cultural heritage has shaped your values. Third, describe the nature of the four ethical behaviors you see in yourself.
Back ground on my self I am a female in my late 20s. I just got a job in a hospital in the rehabilitation dept. I am a Physical therapy assistant. My cultural heritage is Hispanic and native American Indianand also some Irish.

2. Professional/Ethical Hero: First, identify an ethical "hero," an individual that has most impressed you and serves as your role model because of their professional/ethical presence (i.e., sensitivity, appropriate boundaries, and respect for privacy, ethical commitment, and ethical courage).

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3. Elaborate on his or her ethical characteristics. Discuss how this person can (or does) serve as a role model for others in the helping profession. Second, describe how this "hero" has influenced your value system.

Explain how I met a mentor in my college while working in my Associate degree in business and how this person was there for me to make better decisions throughout my college experience. Give details and examples that sound proper. My mentor was one of my first teachers in college he taught a general psychology class. He has also guided me to into making better decisions and or choices.

4. Please read the hero article on PDF attached, and use this as ONE of the references. THIS IS REQUIRED.

5. Ethical Decision-Making Style: This section will articulate your implicit style in terms of ethical decision making. Although there are specific models that help facilitate ethical decision making, everyone has his or her own unique style. Taking into consideration the ethical decision-making models presented in this course, identify the style that reflects your early and ongoing experiences with moral values and issues that has been influenced and shaped by your parents, relatives, peers, and valued adults in your life, such as a teacher or coach. In summary, explain your implicit ethical decision-making style, including how this course and your cultural heritage have served as influential factors.

Here is a course description:

This course explores legal, ethical, and professional choices in the human services field. Topics include decision-making models, confidentiality, professional values, client rights, scope of practice, complaint procedures, informed consent, and standards of care. A multicultural perspective is used throughout the course

6. Professional and Ethical Development: Ethical development is, for most, a career-long process. In the last section of your paper, please identify at least two areas discussed in this module/course where you feel you would benefit from more development. Lastly, suggest ways in which you can acquire your further development.
Please include information from 3+ additional external scholarly references including journal articles using APA formatting for all citations.Must include in text citations and examples.

Your paper should be approximately 6pages min in length, be double-spaced, in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal 1" margins; be written in APA style; and be free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria Maximum Points

Explained how you thought through and determined what is "right" and "wrong" (personally and professionally) in your own daily life.
Identified at least five examples of ethical behaviors and explained how your cultural heritage has shaped your values with these examples.

Described the nature of the four ethical behaviors you have seen in yourself.

Identified an ethical "hero" that has served as your role model and explained his or her ethical characteristics. Explain how I met a mentor in my college while working in my Associate degree in business and how this person was there for me to make better decisions throughout my college experience. Give details and examples that sound proper.

Separately...Described how this "hero" has influenced your value system. Again details, examples here and sources here please.
Explained your implicit ethical decision-making style, including how this course and your cultural heritage have served as influential factors. This class is titled Ethics in Psychology

Identified at least two professional/ethical areas where further development would be beneficial.

Suggested ways in which further development and/or training can be acquired.MIN of three ways. Please be detailed with examples and references .

Included information from 4+ external scholarly references.Including journals and proper books. Try to keep websites to a min unless they are way proper for this assignment.

Writing components:

• Organization

• Usage and Mechanics

• APA Elements

• Style