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Ethical Issues in Disability Practice
Postgraduate | LTU-DIS506 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
Discover the ethics at play for those caring for people with disability, and for those with disability themselves. You’ll debate topics such as autonomy, self-determination, capacity to consent and duty of care to deepen your knowledge.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Ethical Issues in Disability Practice
About this subject
Note: This subject is a part of La Trobe University's Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice, which will become available for application in Semester 2. Students who complete this subject in Semester 1 will be able to apply for credit towards these programs.
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Evaluate the concept of the 'dignity of risk' and its relation to duty of care for people with disabilities;
- Critically evaluate ethical challenges that present when supporting decision-making approaches for people with cognitive disabilities;
- Select and critically evaluate the ethical issues that arise in a selected disability-related topic;
- Interpret and transmit knowledge about various disability-related debates and how their resolution is reflected in current legislation;
- Reflect on a given profession's code of ethics and its relationship to current disability-related legislation.
- Human Rights and the Person
- The Political and Legal Environment
Working with people with disabilities to support their rights and choices is an integral part of disability practice. In this subject, students will learn about ethical challenges faced by people with disabilities and by professionals in supporting the exercise of human rights. Debates in key topics to be explored will include personhood and citizenship, autonomy and self-determination, capacity to consent, the ethics of care, dignity of risk and duty of care, sexuality and reproductive rights.
Risk Forum - Online forum to discuss and evaluate scenarios related to dignity of risk and nature of support provided.
Ethical Perspectives Evaluation - Report evaluating reasons for different ethical perspectives by different people in a given scenario involving approaches to supporting a person with cognitive disability.
Guardianship Case - Prepare a case for presentation at the Guardianship Board about appointing a guardian to make decisions about a given scenario involving a person with cognitive disability (e.g., sterilization, persons place of residence).- Risk Forum (750-word equivalent) (10%)
- Ethical Perspectives Evaluation (1 x 2,500-word equivalent) (45%)
- Guardianship Case (2,500-word equivalent) (45%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
In order to enrol in this subject, students are required to apply to OUA's Postgraduate Single Subjects program (OUA-PSU-GCE).
https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-single-subjects-oua-oua-psu-gce?year=2019
Note: Students wishing to apply for either the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice based on the completion of postgraduate single subjects should familiarise themselves with La Trobe's advanced standing policy. A maximum of two (2) or four (4) subjects may be credited to the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma programs, respectively.
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/getting-started/new-students/advanced-standing
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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