Name
W02 - The Ethics of Freedom and Control (6 Ethics CE)
Date & Time
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Speakers
Description
Michael Gillette has taught philosophy at several colleges and universities, published articles in the field of ethics and received numerous teaching awards. He is president of Bioethical Services of Virginia, Inc., a medical ethics consulting business.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- To demonstrate a pragmatic technique to identify, analyze and resolve ethical issues.
- To review the concepts of autonomy and capacity and to apply these concepts of recovery principles in mental health, the dignity of risk and professional responsibility.
- To define appropriate ethical responses to cases in which providers, recipients and families disagree about indicated services.
Workshop Curriculum:
- Distinguish between theoretical approaches to ethical reasoning and a context-sensitive casuistic approach.
- Present a four-step process for ethical decision making.
- Explain the moral relevance of the dignity of risk.
- Develop a better understanding of the restrictions that can ethically be applied to personal autonomy.
- Define the concept of paternalism.
- Define the concept of distributive justice.
Agenda Times
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am
- Session, 1.5 CE
- 10:30 am – 10:45 am
- Break
- 10:45 am – 12 15 pm
- Session,1 5 CE
- 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
- Lunch
- 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
- Session, 1.5 CE
- 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
- Break
- 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
- Session, 1.5 CE