Human services professionals often need to make ethical decisions when providing support to clients. Complete the following tables to compare several organizations and their guidelines about their responsibilities to their clients, their responsibilities to service providers, their attitudes concerning the duty to warn and the duty to protect, and cultural considerations.
Responsibility to Client
Organization
Responsibility to client
National Organization of Human Services (NOHS)
NOHS employees have a reasonable ethical duty towards their clients according to which they should ensure privacy, integrity and security of the clients' data. They should ensure that the data provided by the clients is not retrieved by any unauthorized person. Secondly the data provide by the clients should not be manipulated by any of the employees and only that data should be recorded which is concerned to the work no additional data should be obtained from the clients.
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
AAMFT has potential ethical responsibility towards its clients. Primarily it expects the employees to be non - discriminating towards the clients. Secondly the client therapy should be conducted after the consent of the client. It is their ethical responsibility to hide the sexual intimacy and extra marital affairs of their clients and this data should only be employed for therapy nothing moiré than that.
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
NASW expects its clients to respect their colleagues. Secondly it expects its employees to be non - discriminate towards the clients and colleagues. Thirdly they expect the employees to refrain from political or social activities which are unethical.
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA workers have various ethical responsibilities. Firstly they are expecting to refrain from malicious activities with the information gathered from their clients. Secondly, they should be justified and should be integral in preserving data collected from clients. Their professional activities should not harm any person or community.
American Counseling Association (ACA)
ACA workers have various ethical responsibilities firstly they should preserve data; they should have harmonious relations with other professionals. Their counseling relationship should not be manipulated and they should be confidential to not to discuss their clients case with anyone.
Responsibility to Provider
Organization
Responsibility to provider
National Organization of Human Services (NOHS)
NOHS provider has their ethical rights. Their personnel dignity should not be challenged. Their respect should be intact and they should be given space to live their personnel lives.