...Personal Ethical Belief System and Professional Ethics Cherissa Boyd BSHS - 332 University of Phoenix August 15, 2011 David Elkins Personal Ethical Belief System and Professional Ethics In the profession of human services, every professional will at some point, include his or her personal ethical standards into his or her work with clients. My personal ethics are a huge part of who I am today, and these beliefs affect every decision I make whether it is personal or professional. I believe a person’s life experiences are what shape his or her personal ethical belief system and professional ethics. A person’s morals determine what is right and what is wrong in his or her life. Everyone is responsible for his or her actions whether it is right with rewards, or wrong with consequences. Combined with these factors, worldviews also plays a huge role in the decision-making process. The framework for decisions is created from a person’s values, beliefs, morals, and personal experiences. According to Freeman, (2000, p. ix) Ethics is “the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment; moral philosophy.” Ethics is a part of philosophy and an application of what we believe is true about our reality. Every person has a right to his or her own beliefs about what is true or not. These “Codes of ethics are designed to guide practitioners, protect the welfare of clients, safeguard the autonomy of professional workers, and enhance the status of the profession” (Freeman, 2000, p. x)...
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...Running head: Religious Belief System Religious Belief System University of Phoenix Religious Belief System Due to the diverse cultures around the world, people experience life differently and adopt assorted personal belief systems. The basis of these belief systems is personal experience and tradition as well as an outline regarding how an individual lives life. Tolerance is an element of life in any diverse area as every person lives life by following a personal set of beliefs and tolerance to other people’s beliefs. The basis of most major religions is ancestry because religion strictly adheres to tradition, so it is a big element in a traditional religious belief system. The catholic religion has many traditions set in ancient times still followed to this day, although Catholicism has its advantages; it also has its downsides. Parents implant an individual’s religious belief system a young age. A personal religious belief system’s foundation is the manner in which the parents raise an individual, and it should complement an individual’s personal moral ethics. Tolerance People need to respect and attempt to understand other people’s religions. People establish these beliefs throughout a lifetime. Just as people may strongly believe in personal beliefs; the public must be tolerant of other people’s individual beliefs. Great wars have stemmed from a diminished understanding of another culture’s religion. As diversity expands worldwide, people of different cultures...
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...Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to dispute irrational beliefs. Slide 2: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, otherwise known as REBT, was developed when Albert Ellis combined humanistic, philosophical, and behavioral therapy in 1955. REBT is considered to be a Cognitive Behavior Therapy. REBT assumes that people contribute to their own psychological problems by the way that they interpret events and that our emotions stem mainly from our beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions. REBT assumes that thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship and that people are born with a potential for both rational and...
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...conduct(behavior). b. A theory or a system of moral values Para#2 An ocerview of yout personal belif system? Your personal belief system can work for you or against you. When it’s working against you, your mood is subject to whatever is going on around you. You feel a sense of entitlement. Love is a requirement for your self-esteem. You take things personally or try to control the world around you. You’re a perfectionist and nothing is ever good enough. When your personal belief system is working for you, your self-worth is not based on your achievement. You don’t seek others for approval. You’re able to find happiness inside yourself. You don’t feel entitled to everything. Love is not a requirement for your happiness or self-worth. You don’t need other people to agree with you. You let yourself make mistakes and you don’t always have to try your best or be the best at everything. You can roll with life’s punches and your mind is a fortress that serves and protects you. Para#3..the rationale for your personal ethical belif system? RATIONALE-1. Fundamental reasons; the basis. 2. An exposition of principles or reasons. individuals who seek a rational system of principles that will help them both define and achieve ever improving character and living. A system that we can enthusiastically pursue, not from duty or primarily to please others, but for personal benefit and from personal conviction. Principles - generalized rules...
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...Ethics and Values in a Global Setting Jason Bokesch CMGT530 March 22, 2010 John Zupan Ethics and Values in a Global Setting This week we were asked to write a paper examining how we reconcile our personal, professional, and cultural values, and our ethics in a global setting. Personal values are individual beliefs that determine individual decision making. These values are not only inherited from our parents, but we also modify them as we experience different events in life. Personal values affect our attitudes toward people, cultures, and society. Professional values are our attitudes toward work, our conduct at work, how we are rewarded, and expectations of our employers. These values ultimately determine who will work for, how hard we will work for them, what we will work for and how we interact with our coworkers. Each group, society, and culture has their own set of beliefs and norms about what is right and wrong, just, or unjust. Ethics are defined as a set of values that determines an individual’s conduct when it comes to making sound decisions regarding what is right and what is wrong. Now that we have looked at how each term is defined, we need to examine today’s global setting in three different terms: cultural differences, economic conditions, and family backgrounds. Now more than ever, there are greater cultural differences in all areas of life. It used to be that cultures were divided by things such as sections of a town, positions in a company, type of company...
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...who are able to let go of their own beliefs in the interest of the beliefs and practices of the patient? “When I encounter a health care provider who is able to respect my beliefs and wishes for meditation and prayers along with any alternative treatments my Elder may suggest, I feel that the provider really does care about me and my getting better.” (Joan, personal communication, 2010). Joan’s interview gave great insight to the fundamental Native American belief system and it can be seen that this belief system has a lot in common with the western Christian belief system. One commonality noted between Native American belief and the Christian belief is that prayer is used to connect with a higher being and is used to find guidance for the person’s way of life. The second faith practice examined was Buddhism. The belief held by the Buddhism faith according to my second patient Karen stated the five rules to live by; “1) No killing, either human or animal, 2) No stealing, 3) No infidelity, 4) No lying, and 5) No alcohol consumption” (Karen, personal communication, 2010). Inner healing also is a main concept of the health and illness continuum according to Karen (Karen, personal communication, 2010). A practicing Buddhist believes that their health is the most important wealth in life and a common goal is to feel no greed and to have no cravings (Buddhism Beliefs, 2008). There is to be no attachments to materialistic things (Buddhism Beliefs, 2008). Karen¹, a practicing Buddhist...
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...Religion and worship are a personal matter to most people. Discussing these matters with strangers, or writing about them may be difficult at the very least. I have never given deep thought to what my personal belief system is nor have I written out or explored my thought processes on religion. I have always thought what my belief system is what it is. I have never studied the Bible and I do not have such strong convictions that my ideas cannot change. While science continues to evolve and try to explain everything in the universe one thing remains constant on Earth, almost all humans, no matter where he or she live, have some sort of religious belief or religious tradition. Their beliefs may be structured and a commonly held conviction of a traditional religion or it may be something such as atheism. My personal beliefs are as follows; I believe in an all empowering entity. I believe in God. My belief in the trinity is as follows, God is the Heavenly Father, His son Jesus Christ came to Earth and died to atone for the sins of man, the Holy Spirit is within each person as long as the individual believe in God and Jesus Christ. I cannot explain how I came to these beliefs. My family has never been overly religious and we never attended church so my beliefs were not ingrained from birth. Me religious belief system is almost like an entity that you cannot grasp, I have it in my heart and mind but it is probably cannot be explained in writing. I was raised in a predominately...
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...differences between personal and business ethics. Finally, I will give real-world examples of common ethical problems past and present in the business world. According to DeGeorge, “Morality consists of rules of human behavior and specifies that certain actions are wrong or immoral and that others are right or moral” (p. 6). Issues of morality are often linked to religion. Moral issues can have serious or immediate effects. Moral issues deal with personal values established by individuals’ upbringing and background. Moral issues are also dependent upon ones social background. Moral views are on a broader level than ethics. According to Shaw and Barry, “Business ethics are mainly concerned with morality in the narrow sense.” Etiquette can have an interaction with morality depending upon the situation. Ethics is refers to a philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness a badness of the motives and ends of such actions (Gale, par 1). Ethical issues generally deal with the breaking of laws and rules established by a governing board for an organization. Ethical issues have become more complex because of global business world and different customs worldwide. Personal ethics are based upon an individual’s particular beliefs or judgments. Each person has established a personal belief system. An individual’s belief system also can be referred to as personal principles or core...
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...Mohr Grand Canyon University- EDA 561 March 23, 2016 Curriculum Philosophy Introduction Personal philosophies of education are at the core of what makes up a good educator. Strong personal beliefs are the core reasoning for why people choose their professions. In education, personal philosophies are essential, meaningful, and so important because those beliefs will affect thousands of other stakeholder throughout ones career. For schools, understandings and commitment to philosophies is the driving force behind curriculum and instruction (GCU, 2010). It is important for school leaders to examine their own personal philosophies of education to determine which of the five educational philosophies it falls into; perennialist, idealist, realist, experimentalist, and existentialist. The following material accounts for a reflection on the results of my own personal philosophy according to Wiles & Bondi (2007) and their personal preference philosophy assessment. Following the results is d as well as my own relations and beliefs of educations in correlation to the five educational philosophies. What is your Philosophy? =============================================================== 8 =============================================================== 7 =============================================================== 6 6 6.2 Strength of Belief Strength of Belief =============================================================== 5 5.4 =============...
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...What is a Belief System ******** REL 133 2011 Professor James Finch What is a Belief System A belief system is a predominant set of beliefs or values for an individual, society, or culture. This could be further narrowed into a religious, philosophical, or ideological belief system. The religious spectrum is basically the belief in a supernatural power that exists and has omnipotence over our destiny. When examining a personal religious belief system the answers to numerous questions must be considered. This examination will determine my personal religious belief system and the benefits of tradition and tolerance across cultures and other religious belief systems. How Your Beliefs Make Up a Religious Belief System Our character is maintained by principles of conduct that make up our belief system. Once the presence of God is injected, it takes up a new purpose and a vision of enlightenment. Its basis is more on faith than observation and reasoning. My beliefs became a religious belief system when my thoughts, words, and actions began being patterned after my God and Savior, Jesus Christ. The commandments in the Bible set up the framework of my social mores. The fine tuning of my character and behaviors are born from study of the Bible and the assistance of the Holy Spirit that lives within me and from socialization with...
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...Hinduism Hinduism Beliefs Lindsey Painter Hum/130 Religions of the World Scott Matkovich May 13, 2012 Hinduism Beliefs “Our beliefs determine our thoughts and attitudes about life, which in turn direct our actions. By our actions, we create our destiny.” (http://www.himalayanacademy.com/basics/nineb/) I now know more about Hinduism beliefs from the research of this paper. It is a belief that believes in karma, reincarnation, and in one God. Considering that Hinduism lacks a uniting belief system, what makes up the Hindu religion? The Hindu's have always known this philosophy of freedom of action, for the reason that they had a perfect religion, a religion on which one aspect of God was characterized as human, and their various Deva's are nothing but various characteristics of human nature, each of them adored and worshipped. In this way not only God, but the whole human nature in all its aspects was adorned and worshipped. Hinduism, which is actually known as the Sanatana Dharma or Eternal Truth, has many uniting belief systems. Hinduism definitely has some uniting beliefs that all people of the faith follow. Hinduism teaches that all living things are Brahman in their core. In other words, all living things are Brahman, or God. Enlightenment is attained by becoming tuned in to the Brahman within. Only then can one reach Nirvana. The release from the wheel of life that allows access to Nirvana is known as “moksha...
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...Personal Ethics Development University of Phoenix PHL/323 Ethics in Management Week One Assignment 29 January 2012 Personal Ethics Development Ethics are what human beings base our day-day functions and existence on. It is safe to say that ethics is the very compound that links understanding with reason, when developing beliefs and opinions. A person’s character defines his morals and values. In the decision-making process, these two assumptions play a major role in what is right and wrong, substantial, or beneficial. Ethics are essentially developed at birth and practiced, altered and molded into an individual’s personality throughout life. Until the situation arises that ethics are used to base an opinion or make a decision, ethics are not defined or understood. From the reading Trevino and Nelson define ethics as “The principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual...
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...Friedman [Ed.], Encyclopedia of mental health. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998). 1 I. II. III. IV. Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs Efficacy-Mediated Processes Adaptive Benefits of Optimistic Self-Beliefs of Efficacy Development and E xercise of Self-Efficacy Over the Lifespan Glossary Affective Processes: Processes regulating emotional states and elicitation of emotional reactions. Cognitive Processes: Thinking processes involved in the acquisition, organization and use of information. Motivation: Activation to action. Level of motivation is reflected in choice of courses of action, and in the intensity and persistence of effort. Perceived Self-Efficacy: People's beliefs about their capabilities to produce effects. Self-Regulation: Exercise of influence over one's own motivation, thought processes, emotional states and patterns of behavior. Perceived self-efficacy is defined as people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives. Selfefficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. Such beliefs produce these diverse effects through four major processes. They include cognitive, motivational, affective and selection processes. A strong sense of efficacy enhances human accomplishment and personal well-being in many ways. People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather...
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...1. My Values, Beliefs, Clinical Gestalt, Individuals, and Systems February 17, 2013 2. My Values, Beliefs, Clinical Gestalt, Individuals, and Systems Abstract The purpose of this paper is to share what I have learned about my personal and my professional assumptions in regards to the helping professions and their relationship to my beliefs, my values, my past experiences, my family and background of my culture, the social systems in context of my life currently, and the types of consumers I may potentially have a helping relationship with. I will reflect on the past two weeks class book exercises and discussions’ that may add further insight into this topic. I will also discuss what my strengths are, and uncover areas in my personal and professional life that might assist me with being a better Human Services Worker. The helping professions and their relationship to my beliefs We all have our own set of beliefs and values. The beliefs and values that I live by will have an impact on the services that I provide to others, in the human services field. Even though I have grown up with a particular set of values and beliefs, I cannot allow my beliefs to interfere with, or determine the quality of the service I provide to the clients and population I serve. My beliefs and values have the ability to affect the working relationship I am attempting to build with a client, they provide a...
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...that an advocate faces as well as their own opinion of advocacy and meditation integration. In addition the writer will also present their personal philosophy and individual approach to advocating for adult probation. Being an advocate can present ethical, moral and legal issues, ethical issues are presented everywhere within advocacy. Those advocates have the ethical responsibility to act with integrity and honesty. Advocates have the moral obligation to help clients and social causes. The most difficult task in their assignments is the legal and ethical limitations they face when taking on their cases. Some of the most stringent limitations include laws regarding defamation or even hate crimes. These hate crimes are not only present in relation to racisms. A rise in hate crimes has been seen towards and in relation with same-sex marriages. These advocates are faced with the difficult task of protecting these people from hate crimes and must at the same time uphold their ethical and moral obligation to their clients regardless of their own personal beliefs (Barsky, 2007). The integration of advocacy and mediation plays a crucial role within all human services agencies. These positions are high recommended to unbiased knowledgeable individuals seeking to help improve society. Advocates uphold and defend their stance on their particular beliefs and do so...
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