How to Use This Chapter
This chapter is designed to help instructors navigate the complexity of law, ethics, and professional practice for a new member of the mental and behavioral health workforce at the undergraduate level. Helping students grow into ethical professionals is a developmental process that starts in the BHSS bachelor’s program and continues throughout the learner’s career. Instructors guide students to evolve from memorization of standards to integration of knowledge with reflection on values and ethical decision making (Ametrano, 2014). One challenge at the undergraduate level is distributing an ethics curriculum across an academic program. A second challenge is identifying current resources for faculty to prepare students for ethical and culturally responsive practice. With planning, these tasks can be accomplished with positive results for the students and the persons they will serve (Parks-Leduc et al., 2021).
The resources below were developed by UW BHSS faculty and staff:
Sample Activities/Assessments for LO-5
Activity: Construct a BHSS Disclosure Template
Activity: Elements of Informed Consent Checklist
Specific Resources for LO-12
Resource: Risk Management Strategies