Dynamics of Ethics

Dynamics of Ethics
Dealing with unwanted personal questions in a professional relationship is not always easy but remaining professional and answering the questions on a clinician and client relationship is the ethical way to perform the job. The clinician can volunteer to tell the client personal information if they choose. How a clinician handles is personal life is very important because a client could have seen the clinician outside of the office and want to ask questions about strike up a conversation about seeing the clinician. The client could also seek information about the clinician from outside sources. Disclosure of any person information should always be supervised so that the conversation stays on a professional level. As a provider the information that is being obtain from the client needs to be held in the strictest of confidence and careful to whom information can be legally and ethically shared. Even though clinicians are still humans and make mistakes, if they cross a moral or legal line, the law is going to hold them accountable. Out of office contacts is permitted as long as it is work related. Work related contact includes hospital visits, institutional and home. These places may be the normal settings for meetings (Dillon & Murphy, 2003) within the Human Services field. Subject matters that the clinician really needs to be concern with are boundary issues. This is very important between the client and clinician. A client can obtain information about clinicians in a number a ways. The clinician can volunteer to tell the client personal information if they choose or the client could have seen the clinician outside of the office and strike up a conversation about seeing the clinician. The client could also seek information about the clinician from outside sources. Disclosure of any person information should always be supervised so that the conversation stays on a professional level. Confidentiality issues are both legal and ethical consequences. Whenever these issues arise they need to be handled right then and fine out the type of impact that it has created in the relationship between the clinician and the client. As a provider the information that is being obtain from the client needs to be held in the strictest of confidence and careful to whom information can be legally and ethically shared. Even though clinicians are still humans and make mistakes, if they cross a moral or legal line, the law is going to hold them accountable. Out of office contacts is permitted as long as it is work related. Work related contact includes hospital visits, institutional and home. These places may be the normal settings for meetings (Dillon & Murphy, 2003) within the Human Services field. Gift giving and receiving are not allow under no circumstance even though the client wants to give the clinician a gift because they feel that the clinician help them through a bad time in their life and just wants to say thank you, this is not allow and can lead to an ethical misunderstanding. Effectiveness with a client must start with being able to commutate effectively with the people and creating a quiet safe space for talking often makes people want to open up and share their stories more(Murphy & Dillon, 2003). Remembering that people come from different cultural experiences and backgrounds is very important treat each person as an individual and look for ways to assist their lives for the better. Even if the people have bad attitudes try to help and earn that trust and respect. Perception of what is being communicated accurate is by knowing what the conversation is about first hand. If unsure of the conversation say nothing because body language will tell the person or people listening that there is no understanding or clue about the subject. People that are good communicators know the importance of effective listening. The way to confirm what is perceived and accurate is to confirm the perception with the person who is sending the message. If the message is a verbal message, do this by rephrasing to get a clear understanding of the message and ask the sender if the understanding is correct. If the message is in writing, send a confirming message to the originator stating the understanding of the message and indicate the way it was perceived and plan to proceed based on that understanding. First impression means everything; greet the person with a nice hand shake. Eye contact makes a person feel relaxed off the top. Make sure the person is not acting uppity when meeting the new people. Make sure the right atmosphere is set so that the person will feel comfortable. Also remember that the people may not be on the same level in many ways but always give them respect and understanding. Make people feel welcome and always focus on what is being said and what their needs are and not your own that how you can evaluate your own effectiveness. Interviewers should use open questions most of the time for the following reason; it puts the client in charge of the conversation, which gives the client more opportunity or flexibility in responding and elaborating on the story Murphy and Dillon, (2003). Conducting an interview the clinician has to be aware not to overuse questions this can make the client pull away instead of expressing themselves and elaborating on the problem or telling their story. Open end questions give the client the opportunity to feel that they are in charge of what is being asked. They can tell the story the way they feel it and not feel forced by the clinician.

References
Murphy, B. C. & Dillon, C., (2003). Interviewing in Action: Assessment, Goal Setting, Contracting, and Evaluation 2e Chapter 5. Available from http://ecampus.phoenix.edu.
Dillon, C., & Murphy, B. C. (2003). Interviewing in Action: Relationship, Process and Change Ending and Transitions 2E Chapter 11. Available from http://ecampus.phoenix.edu.