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5320: U10 D1: Ethics of Self-Care

Management of self-care includes preventive measures important for avoiding burnout
or compassion fatigue. Helpers can struggle with keeping a balance between care for
others and care for themselves. Review Exercise 14.2, the Self-Care Worksheet, in your
textbook.

In your initial post, discuss one of the items in each domain (physical health, social
connections, psychological domain, affective domain, inner life, professional domain)
that you engage in regularly and explain how that activity helps you maintain balance in
your professional and personal life.

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CHAPTER 14

Competence and
the Ethics of Self-Care

I don’t know if it is I’m just overworked or whatever. I’m having
trouble sleeping, don’t want to do anything or go out with friends,
and truthfully, I look at my appointment schedule and start hoping
clients cancel. I’m not sure what’s up, but I sometimes wonder if it’s
time to simply get out of this profession?

The experience being described by the human service provider who
opened this chapter is sadly neither unique to this profession nor
that unusual. For all who work as human service providers, the

mental fatigue and emotional exhaustion that accompany the intense work
we do can be destructive to our health, mental well-being, and ability to
provide ethical and effective service to our clients.

Table 14.1 highlights the fact that our professional codes of ethics are
clear in their mandating of professional competence as a primary ethical
requisite to providing service.

As suggested in the codes posted (see Table 14.1), the primary focus
rests on competence as defined by one’s knowledge, skill, and experience.
While these are clearly essential to effective, ethical practice, they are not
the only considerations that should be made when assessing one’s ability or
one’s competency to perform professional service.

Parsons, R. D., & Dickinson, K. L. (2016). Ethical practice in the human services : From knowing to being. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.
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Table 14.1 Addressing Competency

Professional
Organization Principle

American Counseling
Association (2014)

C.2.a. Counselors practice only within the boundaries of their
competence, based on their education, training, supervised
experience, state and national professional credentials, and
appropriate professional experience.

American Psychological
Association (2010)

2.01.a. Psychologists provide services, teach, and conduct
research with populations and in areas only within the
boundaries of their competence, based on their education,
training, supervised experience, consultation, study, or
professional experience.

American Association
for Marriage and Family
Therapy (2015)

Standard III. Marriage and family therapists maintain high
standards of professional competence and integrity.

International
Association for Group
Psychotherapy and
Group Processes (2009)

Principle 3. Group psychotherapists who are members of
the IAGP should have either completed f