Importance Of Confidentiality In Human Services
1. What is the most important aspect of culturally sensitive human services practice?
Being culturally sensitive and being culturally competent lie hand in hand. Being culturally competent means being able to combine sensitivity and knowledge. Being able to do this will bring a more appropriate way of communication. So it is more important to be able to combine being sensitive about a person’s culture but still have knowledge about their culture so that you are being sensitive not ignorant.
2. What is the definition of ethical standard?
Ethical standards are things that ,in life or in workplaces, people set to draw a line for what is right and wrong when interacting with others.
3. What is confidentiality?
Confidentiality is what is set between an employee and their client that says that they the employee or institution will not release the information that the client tells them.
4. When must a human services worker breach client confidentiality?
Although client confidentiality is very important, it is also important that if the time and circumstances come, then the human services worker does not need to break this agreement. If something that a client tells to a human services worker is a threat to the client themselves or anyone else or says that they plan do something that will break the law it is necessary that the worker …show more content…
This could be anywhere from being friends on facebook to going to social outings together. A second example is a business relationship. This is where the client and the human services worker are either business partners or one is the boss of the other in a business setting. A third example is a sexual relationship. If the client and the worker are having sexual relations it is always considered unethical and in some cases such as a teacher-student relationship it is also
Being culturally sensitive and being culturally competent lie hand in hand. Being culturally competent means being able to combine sensitivity and knowledge. Being able to do this will bring a more appropriate way of communication. So it is more important to be able to combine being sensitive about a person’s culture but still have knowledge about their culture so that you are being sensitive not ignorant.
2. What is the definition of ethical standard?
Ethical standards are things that ,in life or in workplaces, people set to draw a line for what is right and wrong when interacting with others.
3. What is confidentiality?
Confidentiality is what is set between an employee and their client that says that they the employee or institution will not release the information that the client tells them.
4. When must a human services worker breach client confidentiality?
Although client confidentiality is very important, it is also important that if the time and circumstances come, then the human services worker does not need to break this agreement. If something that a client tells to a human services worker is a threat to the client themselves or anyone else or says that they plan do something that will break the law it is necessary that the worker …show more content…
This could be anywhere from being friends on facebook to going to social outings together. A second example is a business relationship. This is where the client and the human services worker are either business partners or one is the boss of the other in a business setting. A third example is a sexual relationship. If the client and the worker are having sexual relations it is always considered unethical and in some cases such as a teacher-student relationship it is also