This course presents a moral system of ethics for your consideration including universal principles of compassion for oneself and others and restraint from causing harm. While exploring ethics for the individual and for society, this course will improve your ability to treat each person with respect, dignity, and worth, adhere to ethical boundaries, and safeguard the therapeutic relationship. Applicable to all practice settings.
Course Objectives
Identify the key elements involved in our capacity to empathize with one another.
Recognize at least five essential elements in the practice of inner discipline.
Describe the levels of compassion and the properties of each level.
Identify the essential elements involved in our experience of suffering, resolution and the application of ethical discipline.
Describe at least three key effects of our development of a sense of universal responsibility.
Recognize the steps necessary to achieve ethical conduct in social and political policies.
