Part 4

Question 1

Conflict of Interest (COI) (Stead)

Answer 1

a conflict between a professional responsibility and a personal interest

Question 2

COI (SCHWAB)

Answer 2

• Understand harms of COI to limit threats of harm
• Difficult to determine someone’s intention
• Judgement - are the individuals’ judgment affected in an incompatible direction that may compromise their ability to fulfill their responsibilities?

Question 3

Professional Moral Courage

Answer 3

“compels or allows an individual to do what he or she believes is right, despite fear of social or economic consequences”

Question 4

Moral Agency

Answer 4

to strive to address an ethical challenge with moral action

Question 5

Severable Conflicts

Answer 5

When conflicts of interest are severable by the individual, the individual has a responsibility to avoid or extricate themselves from the conflict of interest

Question 6

Systemic Conflicts

Answer 6

When conflicts of interest are systemic, they should be excised by the organization or institution, if possible

Question 7

Professional moral courage (PMC) (Sekerka et al. 2009)

Answer 7

an important element in achieving principled performance

Question 8

Moral Competencies Examples

Answer 8

• emotional signaling
• reflective pause
• self-regulation
• moral preparation

Question 9

Emotional Signaling

Answer 9

do not ignore their feelings; on the contrary, they use this affective information as a cue

Question 10

Reflective Pause

Answer 10

• weighing the advantages and disadvantages of different options
• collect their thoughts, generate options

Question 11

Self-Regulation

Answer 11

withholding the impulse to act immediately as well as knowing when to proceed

Question 12

Moral Preparation

Answer 12

we may be less effective at self-regulation when we are tired or hungry

Question 13

Balanced experiential inquiry (BEI)

Answer 13

• an education and training process that supports ethical curiosity while decreasing the negative emotions that often accompany ethical issues
• designed to promote moral development

Question 14

Culture

Answer 14

Encompasses norms and social behaviours, and beliefs, capabilities, customs, habits, knowledge and laws of the people within a group

Question 15

Professional Practice

Answer 15

an ethical responsibility to provide professional services that demonstrate respect for the cultural worldviews, values, and traditions of culturally diverse clients

Question 16

Visible Minority

Answer 16

refers to whether a person is a visible minority or not, as defined by the Employment Equity Act

Question 17

Cultural Tunnel Vision

Answer 17

a perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences

Question 18

In 1995, the federal government passed employment equity legislation that, among other things, required that information be gathered in order to…

Answer 18

determine the degree of the underrepresentation of persons in designated groups, notably the country’s visible minorities

Question 19

Racial microaggressions

Answer 19

brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioural, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races

Question 20

Oppression examples

Answer 20

racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, ableism…

Question 21

Social Justice

Answer 21

involves access and equity to ensure full participation in the life of a society, particularly for those who have been systematically excluded on the basis of race/ethnicity, gender, age, physical or mental disability, education, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics of background or group membership

Question 22

Areas of Concern in research w diverse groups

Answer 22

emphasis on rapport, trust building, and reciprocity, in order to obtain true consent

Question 23

Fair Opportunity Principle

Answer 23

obligates us to act so that no persons receive services on the basis of unearned advantageous attributes because they are not responsible for having these attributes

Question 24

Moral Distress

Answer 24

can occur when we have to deny services to an individual in great need because they are unlikely to benefit and save those resources for others who likely will