The Ethical Decision-Making Process
PSY 570 Final Project Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric Prompt: The four milestone assignments in this course will prepare you to complete your final project, a case study analysis. In Milestone Four you will create two decision-making models to assess your case study vignette’s ethical conflict and address additional considerations. This milestone will further refine the outline you worked on in Milestones Two and Three. First, work on element 9 and list the eight-step ethical decision-making model and apply the eight-step ethical decision-making model to analyze your case study vignette’s ethical conflict. You will develop an ethical strategy to address the ethical issues you identified in Milestone Three and which you could use to resolve your case’s ethical conflict. After working with the eight-step decision-making model, you will identify an alternative decision-making model to analyze your case study vignette’s ethical conflict. Besides discussing ethical decision-making models to resolve your case study vignette’s ethical conflict, you will also look at additional considerations for the ethical conflict. Address whether or not multiple-role relationships were present in your case study. If they are present, detail their importance in problem solving a dilemma. If they are not present, provide a statement that shows you understand what these standards are and their importance in all psychology disciplines. Expand upon element 7 and explain how you considered diversity issues, social concerns, multicultural considerations, and equality in your problem solving of an ethics dilemma.
1. Title Page 2. Case Study Analysis Abstract 3. Detailed Case Study Vignette Description 4. The Ethical Conflict 5. The APA Code of Ethics Principles
a. Identify and define all five principles b. Highlight, bold, or summarize all that might apply to your case study vignette’s ethical conflict c. Justify why highlighted or bolded principles apply to your case study vignette’s ethical conflict
6. The APA Code of Ethics Standards a. List and define all ten standards b. Highlight, bold, or summarize all that might apply to your case study vignette’s ethical conflict c. Justify why highlighted or bolded standards apply to your case study vignette’s ethical conflict
7. Statement of Culture and Social Orientations in the Case Study 8. Statement of Multiple Relationship Issues in the Study 9. The Ethical Decision-Making Model (Eight-Step Model) 10. An Alternative Decision-Making Model 11. Summary and Conclusion
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2–3 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and any sources referenced cited in APA format.
Rubric Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Eight-Step Ethical Decision- Making Model
Meets “Proficient” criteria and includes examples of what standards and guidelines should inform decision making
Lists the eight-step ethical decision-making model and applies model to ethical conflict in case study vignette
Lists the eight-step ethical decision-making model but does not apply model to ethical conflict in case study vignette
Does not list the eight-step ethical decision-making model
18
Ethical Strategy Meets “Proficient” criteria and discusses why proposed ethical strategy would be preferable to other strategies
Develops an ethical strategy and explains how it could be applied to the case’s ethical conflict
Develops an ethical strategy but strategy does not address ethical conflict
Does not develop an ethical strategy
18
Alternative Decision-Making
Model
Meets “Proficient” criteria and explains whether or not model is supported or unsupported by ethical guidelines and standards
Describes an alternative decision- making model and applies model to ethical conflict in case study vignette
Describes an alternative decision- making model but does not apply model to ethical conflict in case study vignette
Does not describe an alternative decision-making model
18
Statement of Culture and
Social Orientations in the Case Study
Meets “Proficient” criteria and illustrates with specific, concrete examples of how the ethical strategy considers issues of diversity and culture
Explains how culture and social orientations influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy and assesses how strategy addresses ethical problems associated with multicultural competence issues
Explains how culture and social orientations influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy but does not assess how strategy addresses ethical problems associated with multicultural competence issues
Does not explain how culture and social orientations influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy
18
Statement of Multiple Role Relationship Issues in the
Study
Meets “Proficient” criteria and illustrates with specific, concrete examples of how the ethical strategy considers the appropriateness of the different relationships psychologists can have with clients
Explains how considerations of multiple role relationship issues influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy and assesses how strategy addresses ethical problems associated with multiple role relationship issues
Explains how considerations of multiple role relationship issues influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy but does not assess how strategy addresses ethical problems associated with multiple role relationship issues
Does not explain how considerations of multiple role relationship issues influenced the development of the proposed ethical strategy
18
APA Writing
No errors related to APA style or citations
Minor errors related to APA style and citations
Some errors related to APA style and citations
Major errors related to APA style and citations
5
Articulation of Response
Submission is free of errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy to read format with language that is appropriate to the intended audience
Submission has no major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, organization or audience- appropriate terminology
Submission has some errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, organization, or audience- appropriate language that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, organization, or audience- specific language that prevent understanding of ideas
5
Earned Total 100%
