Part 4 Flashcards
Conflict of Interest (COI) (Stead)
a conflict between a professional responsibility and a personal interest
COI (SCHWAB)
- 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?
Professional Moral Courage
“compels or allows an individual to do what he or she believes is right, despite fear of social or economic consequences”
Moral Agency
to strive to address an ethical challenge with moral action
Severable Conflicts
When conflicts of interest are severable by the individual, the individual has a responsibility to avoid or extricate themselves from the conflict of interest
Systemic Conflicts
When conflicts of interest are systemic, they should be excised by the organization or institution, if possible
Professional moral courage (PMC) (Sekerka et al. 2009)
an important element in achieving principled performance
Moral Competencies Examples
- emotional signaling
- reflective pause
- self-regulation
- moral preparation
Emotional Signaling
do not ignore their feelings; on the contrary, they use this affective information as a cue
Reflective Pause
- weighing the advantages and disadvantages of different options
- collect their thoughts, generate options
Self-Regulation
withholding the impulse to act immediately as well as knowing when to proceed
Moral Preparation
we may be less effective at self-regulation when we are tired or hungry
Balanced experiential inquiry (BEI)
- an education and training process that supports ethical curiosity while decreasing the negative emotions that often accompany ethical issues
- designed to promote moral development
Culture
Encompasses norms and social behaviours, and beliefs, capabilities, customs, habits, knowledge and laws of the people within a group
Professional Practice
an ethical responsibility to provide professional services that demonstrate respect for the cultural worldviews, values, and traditions of culturally diverse clients
Visible Minority
refers to whether a person is a visible minority or not, as defined by the Employment Equity Act
Cultural Tunnel Vision
a perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences
In 1995, the federal government passed employment equity legislation that, among other things, required that information be gathered in order to…
determine the degree of the underrepresentation of persons in designated groups, notably the country’s visible minorities
Racial microaggressions
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
Oppression examples
racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, ableism…
Social Justice
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
Areas of Concern in research w diverse groups
emphasis on rapport, trust building, and reciprocity, in order to obtain true consent
Fair Opportunity Principle
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
Moral Distress
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
