Ethical obligations to disabled individuals in psychological practice

Ethical Issues and Perspectives of Dealing With Disabled Individuals

The Ethical Principle of Psychologists and Code of Conduct deal with the ethical approach of disability in two methods. First, the code motivates psychologists to become "aware of and respect" disagreements based upon disability and instruct psychologists to attain the admissible expertise while understanding of a disability that is essential for the adequate application of their duties (Behnke 2009).

Respect for People's Rights and Dignity

Psychologists regard the dignity and value of all community and their rights to privacy, confidentiality, and self-reliance. Psychologists are acquainted with and regard not just cultural but also individual, as well as, character distinction including ethnicity, national origin, gender and gender identity, age, race, culture, sexual awareness, religion, language, socio-economic position and contemplate these aspects while working with such groups' members (Behnke 2009).

Competence

Psychologists attain or have the training, experience, consultation, or supervision essential to guarantee the expertise of their duties, or they make suitable frame of reference. Scientific or professional knowledge of Psychology provides that knowledge of factors linked with ethnicity, national origin, gender and gender identity, age, race, culture, sexual awareness, religion, language, socio-economic position and disability is important for useful application of their duties or research. Besides these positive steps, the Ethic Code recommends and wants psychologists to take, Ethical Standards that forbid discrimination and harassment (Behnke 2009).

In addressing the ethical aspects of disability, the Ethics Code thus calls upon psychologists to understand and respect differences based upon disabilities, to obtain the required competencies when understanding a disability is relevant to the effective implementation of services, and to refrain from discrimination and harassment based upon a disability. Becoming aware of disabilities and responding appropriately have central roles in our ethics (Behnke, 2009).

To address the ethics of disability, the Ethics code demands psychologists to regard and understand disagreements based upon disabilities, to get the required expertise while understanding a disability is pertinent to the useful application of the duties, and to abstain from discrimination and harassment depend upon a disability. Main roles in our ethics are to have knowledge of disabilities and respond properly (Behnke 2009).

Care and training to the care takers

There are various types of restraint and solitude that are practiced with patients who demonstrate threat to others or themselves. The most common form of restraint that is presently being practiced with students that show assertive and self-destructive behavior in the school environment is Ambulatory or physical restraint (Ryan & Peterson, 2004). It happens when one or more individuals use their bodies physically to limit the motion of a student as a tool of resuming behavioral control for the safety of misbehaving person, other students, and staff. Seclusion means when a student is unwillingly restricted in a room and is physically refrained from leaving for any portion of time. Both restraint and seclusion are interrelated and school personnel must use judiciousness to transfer a student to a secluded setting (Ryan & Peterson, 2004).

Healthcare organizational influence

Every community has people who are posed with certain disabilities and they play an important role in the community. The Disability and Health Objectives has highlighted different areas for improvement of people with disabilities. The community should include the disabled in health activities, provide them with well-timed interventions and services, enable them to interact with the environment and allow them to participate in daily life activities. They should be given enough opportunities to take part in various daily life activities that add to their growth, development and community contribution. This is the basic guiding principle of all the objectives explained in the paper (Disability and Health, n.d). Unless provided with the opportunities, they shall continue to experience health disparities as compared to general public.

A team of professionals from different disciplines including nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and social work was made. The leading profession was considered as nursing because they should have a balanced approach as their job delivers care. The protocol to be followed in the nursing profession must be a multi-disciplinary approach, which is evidence-based even for critical care nurses. The standardized assessment tools, medication plans are never universally applicable (Mitchell, Parker, Giles & Boyle, 2014).

Virtue ethics

Principle of least harm

One should avoid causing harm to others and prevent others from being harmed. The option should be least permanent harm to all.

Principle of quality of life

Always choose a better quality of life for all people (Gary, 2014).