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Apr 27, 2024
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SSBH 215 Law and Ethics in Social Services (5 credits)
Prerequisite This course is for students in the Social Services and Behavioral Health Pathway.
Course Description
This course explores the legal and ethical issues in social services including: counselor regulation, confidentiality, client rights, involuntary commitment, mandatory reporting, case law, and standards of conduct.
Course Content
A. Law and ethics in social service programs.
B. Moral development theory.
C. Revised Code of Washington (RCW), and Washington Administrative Codes (WAS) relating to counselors.
D. RCW’s and WAC’s regulating the practice of counseling.
E. Uniform Disciplinary Act, uniform Healthcare, Information Act, laws mandating the report of abuse.
F. Values and professionalism for Social Service Healthcare personnel.
G. Diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism.
H. Boundaries as an essential element in ethical decision-making.
I. Professional competences as an ethical issue.
J. Case law in relation to the behavioral health system.
K. Due process in involuntary commitment proceedings.
L. Establish minimum constitutional standards of care.
M. Duty to warn.
Student Outcomes
- Apply a code of ethics based on personal and professional values for solving ethical dilemmas in order to ensure client/patient autonomy in decision making.
- Resolve complex ethical issues in counseling.
- Locate and appropriately apply state and federal law to the helping field.
- Relate how the history of mental illness and client/patient treatment has led to the development of behavioral health laws.
- Identify personal stressors that influence ethical decision making while working with clients/patients.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Global Citizenship (GC): Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Program Outcomes: Know applicable laws and codes as they relate to counseling and client care. Access community resources to provide for life and home maintenance stability.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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