scholarly journals Close Encounters of the First Kind: An interdisciplinary ethics of care approach mitigates moral injury and family division in the midst of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine Ana Berlin
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Family Division

An Ethics-of-Care Approach to Developing Students' Antiracist Practice in SLP Curricula

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-223
Author(s):  
Johanna Boult ◽  
Jennifer E. Whited ◽  
Tamara M. Easley
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Instructional Experience

There is a necessity for students to learn about multicultural multilingual (MM) content in speech-language-pathology curricula. One reason for doing so is personal motivation: an awareness of and commitment to developing competence in working with diverse clients. Awareness can grow given specific instructional experiences in the form of special projects that aim to build cross-cultural relationships with the goal of fostering empathy and compassion. This chapter provides a tutorial explaining one such instructional experience: the cross-cultural communication (CCC) project. Central to the project are face-to-face meetings and reflective journaling on topics including counteracting stereotypes and planning for culturally responsive service provision. Activities have antiracist intentions guided by the moral obligation to care for fellow human beings (as per ethics of care [EoC] theory). This chapter provides (1) theoretical underpinnings of the project, (2) procedures for its completion, and (3) description of a modification of the project for a language disorders course.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Technology Choice: Photovoice Methodology with Men Living in Low-Income Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tarrant ◽  
Kahryn Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Technology Choice ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Photovoice Methodology ◽  
Participatory Method

This article describes a two-phased reflexive ethical process initiated when choosing digital cameras for the photovoice method in research with men living in low-income contexts. While this participatory method aims to flatten power asymmetries in researcher–researched relationships, debate is needed about how pragmatic technology choices may inadvertently underscore or even reinforce participants’ situated experiences of disempowerment and constraint. Critically engaging with an ethics of care approach to decision-making, we unpick what superficially appears to be a straightforward problem of method and demonstrate how pragmatic decisions may confound researchers’ efforts towards democratisation in research. We reflect on how such efforts may inadvertently obscure contextual processes shaping the potential for participants to engage in research. Our reflections demonstrate the need to take seriously all decision-making throughout the research process as integral to a wider politics of method and ethics.

„Ethics of care” and its limitations in psychotherapy and psychological counselling

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (15) ◽  
pp. 230-241
Author(s):  
Michał Melonowski
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Development Ethics ◽  
Psychological Counselling ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Moral Growth ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Moral Duties

The problematic field in this article is one of the most vivid, contemporary dispute, i.e. the dispute between “ethics of care” and “ethics of justice”. “Ethics of care” is Carol Gilligan’s concept derived from her controversy with Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. “Ethics of justice” is a summary term for different concepts developed within the traditional ethics. This traditional ethics tried to name universal principles of acting, independent from the acting person and her feelings. The central categories were “justice” and “the Good”. For the second kind of ethics the central category is “care” and moral duties are gradable. In this article I analyse the controversy in the field of psychotherapy. I maintain that dynamics of psychotherapeutic relation is such that it “imposes” the “ethics of care”. Referring to some examples from clinical practice I tend to prove how dangerous absence of the “ethics of justice” can be in psychotherapy. I claim that using only the “ethics of care” approach in understanding and approaching the patient’s acting may narrow the therapeutic process and slow down the patient’s moral growth.

scholarly journals Why should an ethics of care matter in education?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome P. Joorst
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Teacher Attrition ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Care Approach

When a black 2nd-year student educator gets chased away from a school whilst doing his teaching practice for hair ‘not setting an appropriate example to learners’, the incident elicits questions about the rights of student educators during teaching practice, as well as the extent to which universities and schools care for, support and prepare student educators for the realities of schooling in South Africa. I situate the article in Transformation in Higher Education and the discourses of moral education concerning universities’ preparation of student educators in conjunction with schools in South Africa. The purpose in this article is to critically evaluate the neoliberal regulatory environment that frames education in general and how this has led to ‘uncaring’ environments in which student educators must operate during the execution of their teaching practice. I applied an ethics-of-care- approach to conceptually discuss the central role that care should play in the professional development of student educators. A decline in the level of care for student educators during teaching practice by universities and schools has an increasingly negative impact on their professional preparation which might lead to increased teacher attrition and discourage new entrants to the profession. To achieve the kind of care among teachers we envisage through education, universities and schools will have to re-examine the role of care for student educators during teaching practice.

Enhancing Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Teodora Manea
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIf moral enhancement is possible, the caring capacity of human beings should be considered one of the first and most important traits for augmentation. To assess the plausibility of enhancing care, I will explore how the concept and its associated human dispositions are socially constructed, and identify some of the critical points and complexities. Scientific advances regarding neuro-enhancing substances that allegedly make humans more caring will be considered and assessed against the main principles that govern the ethics of care approach. I argue that given the relational and contextual nature of care, its enhancement, if targeted at the individual level, can be more disadvantageous than helpful, by overlooking the “webs of care” people are situated in, and the role of social institutions in shaping behaviours, duties, attitudes, and principles.

Mortality and morality: ageing and the ethics of care

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIZ LLOYD
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Social Gerontology ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Approach

This paper focuses on the circumstances of death and dying in old age. It considers the ways in which social policies and social gerontology reflect the values of independence, autonomy and citizenship, and it considers the implication of these values for older people who are dependent on others for care and support at the end-of-life. It discusses the complexity of the relationship between ageing and dying, by exploring recent research from the fields of social gerontology and the sociology of death and dying. Arguing that a long-term perspective is required to understand fully the circumstances of older people's deaths, it analyses the third age/fourth age dichotomy as a conceptual model. The task of developing knowledge about the links between ageing and dying requires consideration of moral and ethical principles. The article examines the conceptual frameworks developed by feminists who argue for an ethics of care as a central analytic referent in social policy. The feminist ethics-of-care approach provides a powerful critique of the moral framework of independence and autonomy as characterised in contemporary policies and practices. Feminist ethicists argue that the inter-relatedness of human beings and the importance of the social context have been overlooked in the preoccupation with individual rights – as reflected more generally in policies and social life. It is argued in the paper that the need for care at the end-of-life highlights these shortcomings. The feminist ethics of care has considerable potential to illuminate our understanding of dependency and care, and to generate both new approaches to policy and practice in health and social care and theoretical perspectives in gerontology.

scholarly journals A mind of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hellsten
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Care Approach

This article approaches issues arising out of being in the middle of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland in March 2020, both from the point of view of the lived experience of caring for people in our conference setting, and through analysing the statements and actions of the Finnish government from the point of view of an ethics of care. It argues that an ethics of care approach is better equipped at dealing with thinking about and understanding complex life situations such as the spread of the pandemic than what the standardised taxonomy approaches offer. It further states that an ethics of care not only provides concepts and frameworks that help people grapple with challenging situations in an ethical manner, it also enables us to imagine how hospitality and solidarity can be envisioned anew.

Ethics of care and moral resilience in health care practice: A scoping review

2021 ◽  
pp. 147775092110618
Author(s):  
Sharon Selvakumar ◽  
Belinda Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Moral Resilience

Background Ethics of care provides a framework for health care professionals to manage ethical dilemmas and moral resilience may mitigate stress associated with the process and outcomes of ethical reasoning. This review addresses the empirical study of ethics of care and moral resilience, published in the health care literature, and identifies potential research gaps. Methods and procedure Arksey O’Malley's framework was adopted to conduct this scoping review. A literature search was conducted across six databases: CINAHL Plus with full text, PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Scopus and MEDLINE. We collected and synthesised information on the nature of studies including study design, methods and key findings. Results While there is an abundance of literature describing the potential strengths of an ethics of care approach to ethical reasoning and growing interest in the role of moral resilience in protecting against moral distress, both concepts have received little empirical attention. A total of six relevant publications were selected for review. No studies explored the relationship between ethics of care and moral resilience. However, studies focused upon ethics of care approach as a facilitator of patient-practitioner professional relationships and effective ethical decision making in health care practice. Current evidence explores key characteristics consistent with moral resilience in health care professionals. Conclusion This review identified a dearth of research in ethics of care and moral resilience in healthcare practice. Further empirical investigation may provide a deeper understanding of the translation of ethics of care and moral resilience to health care practice to facilitate workplace culture.

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