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Ethics and Boundaries for Human Service Workers with Brian Flynn

This workshop will introduce participants to the values and ethics that guide professional practice in human services, using the social work professions values and code of ethics as a point of reference. The material, however, applies to every area of human service work.

Attendees will:
Learn definitions of values and ethics
Discuss what happens when different professional ethics conflict with each other
Discuss real world ethical dilemmas and how they would handle them
Discover new tools to assist with decision-making in ethical dilemmas including a Code of Ethics, Lowenberg & Dolgoffs hierarchy of obligations and legal obligations
Learn the steps to take to arrive at ethical decisions and the principals that underpin those decisions

In human services the ethical decision is frequently neither black nor white. What is important is to make decisions using professional values as a guide and to utilize a systematic method for determining and embarking on a course of action.

About the Presenter
Brian Flynn is the Director of Admissions and Student Services at the Binghamton University Department of Social Work.

He is a clinical social worker and has experience as a psychotherapist working with patients who were living with HIV, as an emergency room social worker in a Trauma Center and he is a disaster mental health volunteer with The American Red Cross. Brian also volunteers with HOPE Animal Assisted Crisis Response, a national organization that provides comfort dogs to communities following crises and disasters. Brian was deployed to Ground Zero with Disaster Mental Health following the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001. He also traveled to Thailand providing support after the 2004 Tsunami.

Brian continues to serve as a community member on the Ethics Committee at United Health Services. He has been an instructor in Binghamtons Social Work Program since 2005. He teaches and presents on issues of culturally responsive practice, ethics and values in human services, and an array of other topics.

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