Final Presentation CDST 402

Hi there,

my name is Kopeck and I will be introducing my Children's studies Law and Ethics,

final presentation for Children's Studies class 402 with professor living

First things first?

Um Children's Studies Law and ethics this course has been super amazing.

Um so today I'm just going to be sharing

a couple of things I've learned with you today.

Um and I'm going to be going in depth more

into what it means to make ethical and professional decisions.

Information I've learned um is basically just two main ideas how to advocate

and how to treat Childrens and families in a professional and ethical setting.

So basically um

advocacy

um means that I will be advocating for a child or a family in any situation.

Um and with advocacy comes along with

um

profession al Itty and um

ethical decision making. And so when we're

advocating for a child or family,

we truly do want what's best for them and we

want them to be in a safe and healthy environment

when it comes to treatment for ethical and professional decision making.

Um treatment is really about making the child safe,

making progress with the child and the

family to become something healthy and positive

um in a way that they didn't come to us before.

And when I say us,

um I mean the professionals who are treating who are counseling

um who are in therapy with the Children and families.

And so really it's just about getting them in a

safe setting and getting them in a healthy relationship.

So the next point you're going to be talking about is ethical obstacles.

Um what are some of the ethical obstacles that are gonna be blocking my path

or blocking any advocate or any person who is treating a child or a family?

So with these ethical obstacles to things just really came to mind,

we want to follow the client's best interest,

whether we are advocating or treating a child or a family,

we want what's best for them, We want

them to come to us knowing that we want what's best for them.

And so when it comes to this best interest piece,

um,

for instance, let's say it's a child that we're working with in general,

um this child has a tendency to run away self harm, uh,

makes very poor choices who are damaging their relationship with their family,

their peers.

Um, and even the relationship they have with themselves,

um, we want to follow the client's best interests,

We want um them to feel safe with us.

But in this ethical decision, the client's best interest

may not be coming to us,

may not be um getting that help or seeking um that help that they need.

And so

with client best interests involved,

we want to make those ethical decisions and that can be a very um

very

profound obstacle in our way.

So the next thing that comes to mind is following our own professional instincts.

So whether it's a counselor, um whether it's someone who is in therapeutic session.

Um whether it's a medical professional advocate, like a social worker, um, or

any any advocate that is working with a child or any

person who is working to treat a child or a family.

We have our own professional instincts, we have our own morals, our own code, um,

that defines us in who we are.

And so as we are becoming those professionals and as we

are following the standards following those

requirements and the things necessary,

we have things that come to mind

unique to our own thoughts and our own being

that is going to be set apart from other treatments, other advocates,

other people who are working with Children and families.

And so we want to follow these professional instincts.

We do want to think for ourselves to have our own unique

way of treating or advocating for a child or a family.

Um, but with these also comes a profound um obstacle in our way because for instance,

um

let's say, the client's best interest is to really um

really not engaged with us at all, he he or she doesn't want help.

Um, and this is the family that is coming to us, right. Um,

our own professional instincts are telling us, okay,

this is going to take a while to work with the child.

This is

I'm gonna take a lot of

things to work with and all that kind of stuff,

but

I also do think that in this particular setting, I can't take care of them.

And um this is our own instinct or professional instinct.

And so we may need to follow that,

but at the same time that might not be the best thing for this family.

This family may need more consistency and structure.

And so by referring them to a different counselor or advocate or whatever,

we may be destructive with those boundaries and with that obstacle.

So for the next piece that I'm going to be talking about,

we're going to be talking about ethical prevention.

How can we prevent these obstacles from even coming in place?

How can we still think about these things and still have that ethical code? Um

but have a prevention to where we don't need

the referral for instance to stuff like that.

So with prevention,

three,

three things

are really what comes to mind when

preventing those ethical obstacles, those ethical um mistakes, things like that.

And so

first we really do.

We need to consider following Children's rights and the protocol

that is set for um this setting that we are in.

So whether it's a medical, um whether it's a

professional or whatever it is,

we need to be considering and following those rights um

to prevent the child from your family from any harm.

And following that protocol, those protocols are in place.

Um not only to keep our Children and families safe,

but also to keep us professionals and workers safe as well.

So when we're following um the Children's rights and protocols,

we need to consider all of the things involved.

Um and so when looking at those, we also it's very,

very important to educate our clients

regularly about these things.

We need to educate them about their specific rights, their protocols, um,

things that are in place to keep them safe.

Um

not only does this help the client open up about these things and help the client um

have

uh

a willingness to move forward and progress.

Um and the things that they came to us for.

Um but educating about these will help them in future situations as well.

We want to set up our clients for the best success

and educating them on these things will help them with that.

And so with prevention comes application with thinking about those things.

Considering them following those protocols, the standards educating our client.

We need to apply those things into our advocacy into our treatment of our clients.

Um And so with application

um

I haven't finished this slide but with application we just need

to apply all the things that we talked about and prevention,

we need to go over the specifics, we need to consider cultural humility.

We need to consider things like hipaa our privacy regulations,

all those kind of things.

Um because when we apply those things and when we document them,

consult with our clients.

Um this is truly where the progression comes into our clients

mm.

And so with application next comes response.

And so in response. I haven't finished this side yet either.

But in response,

I'll be talking about just going over all the things that we already talked about,

Things that bring us back truly to the beginning of our sides,

the things that we learned.

And so the things that we learned how to advocate and

treat Children and families in a professional and ethical way.

Throughout all of these slides, we've been going over different situations,

different circumstances, but they are all intricately connected.

Um Everything is combined when we follow those protocols,

when we consider Children's rights,

um,

when we go over um our client's best interests,

our own personal instincts and ethics.

Um they really do connect together and this is how um we

advocate and treat Children and families in a professional and ethical way.

And so next in this response, I truly do want to be talking about

what it meant to be in this class.

And um not only the things that I've learned and how I'm going to apply it,

but why others should be educated in this thing in these things.

Um I truly do think that Children um they are the circle of our lives there.

The next generation. We need to be building them up. We need to be educating them

and especially in these ways we need to treat our

Children with care um in a professional and ethical way.

So others learning about this can be nothing but good. So

that's all I have for my presentation today. I hope that you guys

for Trevor lining. I hope that you enjoyed this. Um, again, this is my outline.

I haven't finished everything, um, but this is Children's Studies, Law and Ethics.

Thank you.

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