Ethical Reasoning - Using Ethical Guidelines


Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:

  • Create realistic scenaries that provide ethical challenges to case managers.
  • Apply the ACA Code of Ethics guidelines to formulate a response to the ethical dilemma.

Group Work

Each of you will be assigned to a small group. The small group will be given a set of three different ethical codes. The group will select ONE of these to work on. The work of the group is to create a realistic case study portraying a situation in which a case manager would have to face a decision related to that code.

Click here to download the 2015 ACA Code of Ethics

In your description you need to tell a story ("Case Manager Bob made an appointment with his first client of the day, Helen...and so on).

You should try to NOT use the language of the Code so that a reader would have to try and figure out which code applies.

Each team will work together to submit ONE Story and ONE Answer Sheet. The Answer Sheet will identify the Code in question and will provide an adequate course of action on the part of the Case Manager.

The group will be graded on this assignment based on the finished product.

Please see the Groups link in the Menu to find your group. Your Professor will inform you when the groups have been made ready.


Individual Work

Once all of the Group Work is done, your Professor will construct a quiz based on each of these case studies. Each of you will need to complete this quiz. For each case study you will need to provide the complete text of the code you are applying in your course of action (copy and paste this from the actual ACA Code of Ethics) and then, your course of action.

Each of you must complete this task for EACH case study, including the one your group completed.

Complete this part of this Lesson through the Ethical Reasoning Quiz


Reporting Out

At the conclusion of the grading of the quiz, your Professor will construct a document that lists each response to each case study. This document will be made available in the Ethical Reasoning Discussion Board.

Each group should review and comment on the diversity of the responses to their own case study.

Particiaption in this online (or classroom) discussion has the same expectations as regular graded discussions.