Ethical Decision Making for Practitioners
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This site provides an ethics toolkit for practitioners, trainees and service managers who conduct or support practice in complex, cross-cultural or fragile settings. Practice may include clinical practice, community practice or other health and human services practice.
This practitioner toolkit emerged from the development of a toolkit for ethical researchers following a series of discussions with more than 750 global researchers and practitioners from more than 30 countries designed to inform and support ethical decision making and action. Many practitioners in this group felt that a toolkit designed for clinical practice would also be helpful. This has now extended beyond clinical practice to include community-based practice or other health and human services practice in areas as diverse as refugee support and the support of high performance athletes – indeed any context in which we are faced with choices that may impact others in potentially harmful ways.
| What was clear from these discussions was that practitioners can be faced with circumstances that: |
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In sum, context and potential impact are dual drivers for paying particular attention to upholding the highest possible standards of ethical conduct and preventing poor practice. |
This toolkit promotes a values-driven, solution-focused and iterative approach to ethics. It seeks to illuminate and address existing and emerging issues in a rapidly changing landscape of expectations about ethical service delivery and ethical practitioner conduct.
The primary example provided in the links below is the toolkit for clinical practitioners as this has been the most fully developed. However, several other practice-related versions of the toolkit can be found here (coming soon). These included adaptations that have been used in service design for cross-cultural refugee groups, for a sporting context – others will be added as they become available. We encourage practitioners and service managers to adapt the toolkit to fit your needs. Click this link to learn how to adapt it for your circumstances.
A work in progress: Be part of the conversation
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Please Contact Us
We are aware that this toolkit is a work in progress and needs to be under continuous review. If you have suggestions, please contact us. Your suggestions will be welcome.
We hope this toolkit will encourage further conversation as we all strive to undertake impactful clinical practice and research with our communities.
Contact Authors
Dr. Clara Calia, Professor Liz Grant & Professor Corinne Reid, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Cristóbal Guerra, Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile
Email: ethicalglobalpractice@ed.ac.uk
| If you would like to cite this toolkit, please use the following citation: |
| Reid, C., Calia, C., Guerra, C. & Grant, L. (2019). Ethical Action in Global Research and Clinical Practice: A Toolkit. The University of Edinburgh. Available at: www.ethical-action.ed.ac.uk |