Who Decides: The Ethical Limits of Individual Choice

Description:

This 1.5 hour interactive session will examine circumstances in which service providers and recipients of services disagree about the details of a service plan.  We will discuss the appropriate role of autonomy and define its limits.  We will consider case studies in which individuals should be permitted a dignity of risk, cases in which paternalistic intervention is justified, and situations in which autonomy may be limited in order to protect others from harm or offense.

Objectives:

1. To review the concepts of autonomy, paternalism and fairness.
2. To identify the limits of individual choice in order to protect those individuals from self-generated harm.
3. To identify the limits of individual choice in order to protect others from harm.
4. To clarify the ethical conflict between an individual’s right to make potentially dangerous decisions and staff’s obligation to protect individuals from harm.

Zoom Information: https://regionten.zoom.us/j/97333833448?pwd=ZGhaVXpwSTBOL0hjWnRlR2Zydnd4QT09

Completion certificate/contact hours will be provided.