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Is there a difference between morals and ethics? What ethical codes are most typically used by rehabilitation practitioners? What guiding principles help us make decisions when ethical dilemmas occur? What is the practitioner’s responsibility to our consumer? These questions and many others will be answered by Dr. Brandi Levingston. Dr Levingston will demonstrate how to use a decision-making model to tease out possible solutions to ethical dilemmas. By using several real life examples, participants will walk through the steps of the decision making model. This session will highlight how the practitioner’s value system may influence our decisions. Dr. Levingston will review what consultations may be advised when developing a plan of action to address the ethical issue.
Registered participants are requested to submit ethical dilemmas scenarios for use to untwise@unt.edu from March 20th through March 25. Not all dilemmas submitted may be used dependent on time and number of submissions. Participants who submit scenarios will not receive an individual response to their submission.
Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will:
- Define an ethical dilemma
- Understand the principles of ethics
- Gain knowledge of ethical codes and resources
- Use a decision making model
About the presenter:
Brandi Levingston, Ph.D., CRC, is a Principal Lecturer at the University of North Texas in the College of Health and Public Service Department of Rehabilitation and Health Services. She received her doctoral degree in Special Education, with a concentration in Rehabilitation Counseling, from the University of Texas at Austin and her master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She has also worked as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the State of Texas. Her interests include: psychosocial aspects of disability cultural competence, students with disabilities in postsecondary education, and employment of persons with disabilities, specifically people with blindness or visual-impairments.
