Ethics Workshop with Prof Emerita, Lindy McAllister PhD, (SLP and Ethicist), University of Sydney: 13th June, 9-11am + 27th June, 9-10.30am Details

Ethics Workshop with Lindy McAllister

Ethics Workshop with Lindy McAllister

In response to member's requests for support in making ethical decisions. we bring you this very practical course. Inform your practice as an SLT so that you can make wise decisions when faced with the many ethical dilemmas that SLTs are confronted with in contemporary practice settings. This training course is being facilitated by Lindy McAllister, SLP, Ethicist, Author and Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, Australia, who is in a unique position to understand the perspective of Speech and Language Therapists.

Date and time
13th June 2023: 9am - 11am
27th June 2023: 9am - 10.30am

Session one: 13th June:

Will be a workshop / presentation exploring ethics and their relevance to SLT practice. Participants will be invited to email Lindy a short and de-identified description of an ethical problem before the event and she will select a couple of these for discussion re decision making during the session.

Session two: 27th June:

Will provide an opportunity to discuss ethical issues/concerns from  therapists' own practice experience. that attendees at the first session may have wished to discuss with the group (in a de-identified way). People attending the second session should have attended the first session.

Course Content and Learning Outcomes

  1. Values, duties and principles of ethics: biomedical ethics, ethics of care, casuistry, narrative ethics; equity vs justice
  2. Types of ethical problems: ethical tensions, ethical distress, ethical dilemmas, locus of authority issues
  3. Decision making approaches to manage ethical dilemmas
  4. Case study – small group work online feeding back to whole group
  5. Online discussion and workshopping of ethical problems experienced by participants; as stated already, participants will be invited to email Lindy a short and de-identified description of an ethical problem before the event and she will select a couple of these for discussion re decision making during the session.

About Lindy

Lindy McAllister PhD is a Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, Australia. She was a Senior Appointed Member of the Ethics Board of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) for many years. She co-authored SPA’s new Code of Ethics in 2002 and a revision in 2010, along with an education package on ethics for SPA members in 2002. She has taught ethics to speech and language therapy students in many countries, as well as to allied health students at the University of Sydney. She has published  several articles about ethics and ethics education and in 2009 wrote a book for SLT students and clinicians with her colleague Richard Body. Body, R. & McAllister, L. (2009). Ethics in speech and language therapy. Oxford, UK: Wiley & Sons.

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