Adolescent Ethical Issues

After being interviewed by the supervisor at BUILD about how this program is ran and all the policies and procedures, I willing selected this agency for field practicum because I was very interested in helping this population of individual’s and I felt that this was my area of expertise already. Unfortunately, to my surprise this was not so, because I quickly realized that my level of expertise in this area of learning was very little. I realized this when many ethical issues concerning the youth participants at Leland Elementary tended arise. Although there are many ethical issues that tend to arise at Leland Elementary, there are at least two ethical issues that tend to be a constant concern in working with the youth participants there. The most frequent ethical dilemma that occurs stem from fights that the youth participants at Leland Elementary commonly partake in. When fights arise at Leland, student interns like myself face an ethical dilemma. Do we break up the youth participants from fighting or do we wait and let the school staff handle the matter? Another ethical issue that tends to arise is in the area of upholding BUILD’s policy on not giving the youth participant’s incentive for good behavior. Due to overwhelming behavioral issues at Leland Elementary regarding the youth, not rewarding them when their behavior improves has led

However, in order to best communicate informed consent, counselor can educate their students through school handbooks, brochures, classroom curriculum, and informing students verbally (p. 2). Confidentially looks different in terms of working with minors, when assessing a situation for serious and foreseeable harm. A counselor must consider students’ chronological and developmental age. As well as the setting, parental rights, and the nature of harm possible. Additionally, school counselors need to consider students’ ethical rights to make their own choices, and to give assent or consent, and the legal rights of the students’ parents and families to make choices for their child (p. 2).

Upon my research I found out that there are many justices related programs from a restorative or community framework that are being offered and available to people all ages, from 0 to 4 and even 55+, races and genders. In order to determine what program I want to look deeper into and examine, I turned to the Office of Justice Programs website which lists over 400 programs available. The website points out what programs work and where tested and those that where deemed as failed researches and programs, more specifically 90 effective programs, 272 as promising, and 81 as no effect. One particular program that I was interested in and is listed as one of the effective programs and applies to my set of principles is Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) or another name they use is Michigan State University Adolescent Project (MSUAP) which was founded and is practiced at Michigan State University. The set of principles that I found Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) program relevant to are: restorative justice should not be mandated in a top-down authoritarian process, no single road map or blueprint for every individual involved, all persons involved must be prepared to make mistakes, assistance provided should help people involved in the long run, crime involves disruptions in a three dimensional relationship of victim, community, and offender, the primary goals should be to repair the harm, heal the victim and the community, and rehabilitate offenders.

As a 15-yearold “at risk” adolescent, Manual recently reported feeling extreme depression and admitted that he no longer cared about living. In order to provide useful counseling support to Manuel, J. McWhirter, B. McWhirter, E. McWhirter, and R. McWhirter (2013) provide a list of legal and ethical considerations that serve as a guidelines during interventions. These suggestions include counselors’ documenting the incident and any intervention methods, consulting with colleagues in order to provide sound counsel, encouraging staff members to be considerate and professional within their communication, reaching out to the adolescents’ families, and keeping current with professional

The four ethical principles of Beauchamp and Childress’s framework are essential in the medical decision making for adolescent patients. Those bioethics principles include justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy (Ishibashi, Lewis, & Baker, 2016). Generally, all patients regardless of their age should be involved in their care along with their families. Moreover, patients are entitled to certain degree of autonomy or assent according to their cognitive levels, which involve self-determination of providing informed consent and accepting or refusing treatment (Ivey & Browen, 2012). For many years, there was a growing literature to support adolescences involvement in clinical decision making of their care. In 2000, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child added articles 12 and 13 states that all children have the right to convey their thoughts and express their opinion openly. Those articles obligate governments to establish reinforcement of autonomy. In light of the ethical and legal obligations pediatric health care providers modified the respect of minor’s autonomy principle. This modification addresses the developmental cognitive capacity in adolescent population to establish the legal responsibility of minor’s decision making. Adolescents intellectual growth and ability to analyze all the benefits, risks and treatment goals must be

It is essential to work with the parents or guardians of the minor child to have the greatest success in counseling. Educating and bringing awareness to the minor child and their parents/guardians about confidentiality is key. The counselor should state clear and precise roles each the counselor, parent, and child plays in the therapeutic process (Herlihy & Corey, 2015). Counselor can be guided through this process by using the ACA Code of Ethics Standard A.2.d, which states the counselor acknowledges the need to balance between the parent/guardian and the minor child. A counselor acknowledges this code with respect for Standard B.5.d, which states a counselor respects inherent rights and responsibilities of the parent/guardian over the welfare of the minor client (Remley & Herlihy, 2014). It is necessary for counselors to encourage open communication with parents/guardians. The counselor is responsible for educating families as well as themselves on basic rights in the state they are practicing (Diaz et al.,

The selected in-House program helped in accessing essential interventions by supporting the adolescents and children and their families the time the mental and behavioral matters led to elimination from the home setting with the lack of timely intervention (McWhirter et al., 2012). More ever, this program was appropriate for the adolescents and children who were transitioning home from an out-of-home location for example detention, foster care, or residential programs. The supportive In-Home Services are delivered to youth and their folks in the home and civic to support the family via crisis or succeed the behavioral or rational health needs of a youth.

What exactly causes a teenager to rebel? This question is asked by millions of parents across the nation. Adolescents are in the formal operational thought stage. Parents must realize that their teenage children will have the desire to make their own decisions and challenge any inconsistent discipline. In the broadcast video, Teens: What makes them tick, when questioned why they choose to rebel, the majority of teenagers had one main reason, they are pulling away from their parents. With authoritarian parents, teenagers feel trapped and unloved. These parents are constantly nagging, lecturing and focusing on the negative aspects along with being punitive. The teenager begins to

Everywhere around the United States, there are troubled adolescents who are able to either get away with crimes or have little consequence if they are caught. According to the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, there were about 300,000 violent crimes in the United States. These crimes include manslaughter, murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Although, the number is lower than two decades ago, the number is still present. There are punk kids out in the world who take advantage of the criminal justice system. They may be violent offenders, but the justice system takes it easy on them. I believe that teens should be tried as adults in the court of law because the adolescents have control of themselves, if a children commits a heinous crime they should not be taken easily, and children understand crimes at a younger age.

Of the twenty-six student respondents, 50% drank alcohol and smoked marijuana, 61.5% had stolen, and 42.3% smoked cigarettes (Doggett, n.d.). Doggett (n.d.) found that of the sixteen students who admitted to stealing, nine lived in a two parent household. This research provides evidence of the importance of a healthy relationship between a juvenile and their parents. The home-life of a juvenile has a significant impact on their decisions involving school, behavior, activities outside of school, and those who the juvenile socialize

Over recent years there has been an increasing approval in Britain and elsewhere that children and young people should be involved more in decision making which may affect them. Recent years have seen an increase on the focus of children 's rights which include ways of getting young people and children involved more directly in decision making that impact their lives. In research terms, this has been mirrored in a linguistic shift from talking about 'research on ' to research with ' and now, increasingly, to 'research by ' children and young people (Kimmel, A.J., 1988).

A specific plan is devised to aid child/adolescent in dealing with anger, and difficulty getting along with others. The support system includes people who are relevant in the child or adolescents life. For example, counselors, therapist, family members, community and clergy who work together in assisting the child or adolescent in re-directing their behavior. In addition, to support services a major focus is keeping the child /adolescent in the home or re-unification with parent or caregiver.

While adolescents make their own choices, they are not the only cause of their deviant behavior; there are outside influences like the family, peers, and drug use, they do not know of or even consider the consequences of their behavior, and they are not aware of the programs set in place to help

Children need to have a role model in their presence to advocate educational activities, community involvement, and avoiding contact with the law for bad behavior. As Baker states, “Delinquents are made, not born” (1991, Pg. 274). Possible noncriminal behaviors that may affect a juvenile to become delinquent include; child neglect and/ or abuse, termination of parental rights, foster home placements, those beyond parental control, interfamily assault and other criminal acts (Baker, 1991, Pg. 275). Parents must learn to teach family conflict intervention, management problems, favorable parental attitudes and involvement in problem behaviors. At an early age we learn to do what it thought, showed, and have the adult figure set the example in our lives. For example, helping with academic failure, avoid delinquent criminal peers, and guide away from drug use and crime. Adolescent problem behaviors start with the parents, then move into the community, and society must respond by providing alternative programs and institutions to help the problem.

The social environment of teens holds an enormous influence on how the teens act and behave. Teens are easily influenced by their surroundings and they look to others for guidance. Their behavior results from that of the parent and peer influences. Parents play a particularly influential role in their child’s life and it is up to them to make sure that they are leading their sons or daughters in the right directions. A teen’s peers also play a large role in how the teen behaves when the parents are not around. A teen’s social environment, consisting of family and peers, plays a vital role in their life, therefore becoming the ultimate cause of juvenile delinquency.