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Unit 4: Ethics

1 You should always act in the best interests of your service users.

  • You should respect a person’s right to have their interventions carried out by a professional and not a student.
  • You should not exploit or abuse your relationships with service users.
  • You should treat everyone equally.
  • You should not do anything that you think will put someone in danger.
  • If you are worried about a situation which might put someone at risk, you should speak to a member of the placement team or your education provider.

2 You should respect the confidentiality of your service users.

  • You should keep information about service users confidential, and only use it for the purpose for which it was given, unless the information raises concerns about a situation where someone may be at risk.
  • You should not knowingly give any personal or confidential information to anyone who is not entitled to access it.
  • You should remove anything that could be used to identify a service user from confidential information which you use in your assessment. This is called anonymising the information.
  • You should follow local policies or guidelines if you want to use information that may identify someone in your assessments.
  • You should follow local policies or guidelines on confidentiality produced by your education provider or placement provider.

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SMILE - Ethics by The BPS code of human research ethics, The HPC guidance on conduct and ethics for students, modified by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/code_of_human_research_ethics.pdf, http://www.hpc-uk.org/assets/documents/10002D1BGuidanceonconductandethicsforstudents.pdf, http://www.gcal.ac.uk/hr/policies/general/code_of_good_practice_in_research.doc, http://www.gcu.ac.uk/registry/secretariat/documents/EthicsBookletMarch2011asonwebsite.doc.