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HSMH403 - Professional Practice in Mental Health & Addiction Support

   

Added on  2020-04-15

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Running head: ETHICAL PRACTICEETHICAL PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION SUPPORT WORKName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1 ETHICAL PRACTICETable of ContentsPart: 1.........................................................................................................................................3Mental Health Users:..............................................................................................................3An ethical dilemma: Privacy..............................................................................................3Decision making process....................................................................................................3Maintenance of boundaries in accordance with the wellness plan.....................................4Maintenance of boundaries in accordance with the organizational policies......................4Discussion of ethical issues................................................................................................4Ethical issues in accordance with organization policies....................................................5Addiction Service Users.............................................................................................................5An ethical dilemma: Consent.............................................................................................5Maintenance of boundaries in accordance with the wellness plan.....................................6Maintenance of boundaries in accordance with the organizational policies......................7Discussion of ethical issues................................................................................................7Ethical issues in accordance with organization policies....................................................8Part 2..........................................................................................................................................9Reflection...............................................................................................................................9Reflection review...............................................................................................................9Reflection on ethical practices: Self evaluation.................................................................9References................................................................................................................................11

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3 ETHICAL PRACTICEPart: 1Mental Health Users: An ethical dilemma: PrivacyThe right of an individual towards confidentiality and privacy falls under the ethicalprinciple of autonomy. There are four types of privacy including physical privacy,informational privacy, decisional privacy and proprietary privacy (Siriwardhana, Adikari,Jayaweera & Sumathipala, 2013). Confidentiality is a right to restrict the disclosure of thepersonal information. While providing mental healthcare to a Tangata Whai Ora mentalhealth patient, I faced ethical dilemma of privacy and confidentiality. The patient hasreported me certain information that is potentially harmful to himself or someone else andthus I faced dilemma as a service worker in reporting the information. Moreover, apsychiatric patient does not have a stable frame of mind for the information to be truthful. Ifaced ethical dilemma in reporting that sensitive information to doctor because the patientwas not willing to share the same with the doctor. He has shared with me only out of sheertrust and believed that I won't share the same information to anyone else.Decision making processIn the domain of the disclosure of the information, patient's autonomy is at timesoverridden by the ethical principal of justice and/or nonmaleficence, beneficence (DeKeyserGanz & Berkovitz, 2012). In the decision making process, what I took as a reference is,information can be disclosed in the absence of the patient's information only when the personare falling under a threat to themselves (non-maleficence) and when the information is in aneed for providing quality care (beneficence). In my case, the information shared by thepatients about his health status was misleading and has no connection with each other. This

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