Personal Values & Ethical Standards Paper

Write a 2,100- to 2,450-word paper on the development of your personal values, ground rules, and ethics. Focus on the developmental aspect rather than on a particular position on any issue.

Has to be in APA format, third person only!

• Define your values, the sources that helped shape your values—such as people, institutions and events—and the criteria and decision-making factors you use today to revise them as necessary.
• Discuss the implications of your values for your work as a human service professional.
• Discuss a specific ethical dilemma, in relation to the ethical standards of human service professionals, in which you would experience little difficulty due to a concordance between ethical practice and your personal belief system.
• Address a specific ethical dilemma, in relation to the ethical standards of human service professionals, in which you either anticipate difficulty or have experienced difficulty in ethical practice due to a conflict or discordance between ethical practice and your personal values.
• Briefly discuss each of the ethical standards and the following general principles:
  • The use of psychological tests in the courtroom
  • The lie detector
  • Boundaries of competence
  • Integrity
  • Sexual harassment
  • Human differences
  • The legal definition of insanity

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.