Child And Family Development Forum

 Ethics (Part II)

Go to the link below and take the quick ethical ideology survey. Once completed, discuss your results with the class (be sure to write down the information as it’s presented on your screen while taking the survey) and explain how knowing your ethical ideology could help you as a child and family life professional.

Quiz: What’s your Ethical Style? – Loyola Marymount University

The purpose of this assignment is to have you critically analyze your own personal beliefs and how they might help or hinder you as a child and family development professional.

400 Level Forum Grading Rubric	Possible points	Student points
Met initial post deadline (Wednesday)	10
Initial post is substantive	10
Initial post is at least 400 words	10
Initial post employs at least two citations; one can be text; other must be from an academic source	10

***My ethics part 1

“I find the virtues ethics approach most important for child and family life specialist. This approach is concerned with what kind of a person one should be. It looks at the things that would help one achieve the goal and what would prevent them from being who they want to be. It aligns the behavior of one to that of a moral person. This approach ensures that most people express goodness and this would be very important in a society where the behavior of one would go a long way affecting other individuals (Tools for ethical thinking and practice in family life education, 2009). Virtues ethics involves deciding on the things that one should always aim for such as being just and prudent. Then there are things that one should avoid and these are vices.

Self-care, fidelity, justice and prudence form the traditional list of virtues. These virtues are very important in ensuring that many children and parents benefit from the specialist. A virtuous specialist will identify the weak group or individual and try to help them so they come to the same level as the rest of the class. For example, in a class where a child has hearing problems, the specialist will be keen to use illustrations and other ways that would help the child get to understand better. This will ensure that the child benefits equally just like the others.

The virtues ethics approach would require that one thinks in a rational way (“BBC – Ethics – Introduction to ethics: Virtue ethics”, 2016). This means that the person should not rely on their instincts but they should do what will be good for many. There are things that will be right to do and those are the things that a virtuous would normally do. The specialist is only required to portray a certain set of virtues to be regarded as virtuous. It would not require that they become saints. Virtues are generally known to people and it would be very easy to identify a virtuous person from the things they do. Virtues ethics approach will help the specialists to bring up children and parents as good people rather than depending on the rule of law.

The virtuous ethics approach has it that one evaluates their own actions and make sure that the different aspects, mental, physical and spiritual are in a state that would be said to be good (“Virtue Ethics – By Branch / Doctrine – The Basics of Philosophy”, 2016). This is what the virtue of self-care would require. It is such a common thing that has far-reaching consequences if neglected. For example, a specialist will not only be concerned with one aspect of the child which is mental but various aspects including the spiritual and physical. This approach would be insufficient on its own but it tends to yield much more than the other approaches.

References 

Tools for ethical thinking and practice in family life education. (2009). Minneapolis, MN.

BBC – Ethics – Introduction to ethics: Virtue ethics. (2016). Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2016, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/virtue.shtml

Virtue Ethics – By Branch / Doctrine – The Basics of Philosophy. (2016). Philosophybasics.com. Retrieved 4 August 2016, from http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_virtue_ethics.html”

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