Ethics Case Study
Subject
Humanities
Question Description
Create a PowerPoint presentation of at least 10 slides that could be given in a professional context. The presentation will demonstrate the use of professional guidelines and tools that create a strategy for dealing with an ethical dilemma in a simulated case study, and will analyze the usefulness of those guidelines and tools.
Note: You are strongly encouraged to complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Ethical principles, professional standards, reasoning models, and decision-making models provide guides for navigating complex moral choices in professional contexts.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Apply ethical principles and standards to ethical dilemmas.
Evaluate the guidance offered by a professional ethical standard in relation to particular ethical concerns.
Design a viable solution for an ethical problem.
Employ models of ethical reasoning and ethical decision making.
Apply steps in an ethical decision-making model to resolve an ethical dilemma.
Justify why a particular ethical reasoning model is most appropriate in resolving an ethical dilemma.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and good organization, following APA guidelines.
Convey information in a presentation format that is readable and well organized.
An ethical dilemma is a situation that is difficult to resolve because no course of action will be a perfect solution. In such situations, critically analyzing and thinking about all applicable ethical principles is important. Even then, it can be hard to make ethical decisions, but decisions must be made. Often, avoidance of making a decision is a decision within itself, and it can bring the worst possible outcome.