Comment to classmates statments.....moral and legal

1st classmate

Human service professionals help clients to be able to meet their needs, overcome their challenges, and improve their lives.  Human service professionals are obligated to uphold certain ethical and legal standards that protect client rights.  They must protect the integrity and welfare of clients at all times and act as advocates for them.  

Humn service professionals have both moral and legal standards which they are obligated to uphold.  In many circumstances, moral and legal standards compliment each other; however, in others, they may conflict with each other.  It is most important for human service professionals to uphold moral obligations in protecting client rights because above anything else, human service workers are advocates for those they serve.  According to the National Organization for Human Services (2015), they have a responsibility to ensure that clients are treated "with respect, acceptance, and dignity." (STATEMENT 2).

2nd Classmate

I think when it comes to legal rights with client's, this is what can cause them not to be completely open with the human service professional. Many times as clients go to services for help they already have trust issues, but if they threat to harm themselves or others we as human service professionals have to report it. Although we have to uphold our obligations to the client, in a case that a client make a threat and it may even seem harmless. How do you gain that trust back after you report the threat? How serious does the threat have to be to report it to authorities?

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