Cost: $100

This course focuses on professionalism within the helping professions, with particular attention to the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics. Students will discuss ethical responsibilities and challenges which may exist within multilevel practice arenas, with particular attention to documentation, confidentiality, and technology. Specific practice issues with various types of helping will be examined.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this badge, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of professional social work ethics in practice.
  • Identify at least three practice issues related to client rights, the professional relationship, and supervision.
  • Articulate at least two requirements for record keeping and confidentiality.
  • Describe ten ethical responsibilities for professionalism and technology usage.

Credit Hours

Success in this 0.5 credit hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit of credit, a minimum of 7.5 hours over the length of the course in direct instruction as provided by the instructor and an additional 15 hours outside of class reading, reflecting, and evaluating the topics for a total of 22.5 hours.

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Credit Criteria

Grading Scale: Badge/No Badge

Evaluation: 100% completion of badge criteria

Contact Hours for Professional Relicensure

Social Workers: Per state statute 10-2-4a, An academic social work course or an academic course oriented to the enhancement of social work for academic credit. Each licensee shall be granted 15 continuing education hours for each academic credit hour that the licensee successfully completes. Therefore the maximum for this course is 7.5 continuing education hours. Per state statute 10-2-5, individuals should self submit the academic course syllabus and verification that the course was presented (via transcript).

Instructor

Shaunna Millar

Shaunna Millar, LMSW

Shaunna Millar has been a social worker for over eighteen years, receiving both her BSW and MSW degrees from Wichita State University. Before returning to Wichita State University in 2010, she was an adjunct instructor for Butler Community College in Andover, Kansas, for ten years, and had served as a previous visiting instructor with WSU in 2003-2004. She has taught across the social work curriculum, and has particular interests in creativity in multilevel practice, social welfare policy, community action, and children’s issues. Shaunna has worked primarily in the areas of child welfare, mental health, forensic social work, and juvenile justice. She started her career working with the YWCA Women’s Crisis Center as a children’s advocate, and continued working with children facing issues of violence and sexual abuse with the Exploited & Missing Child Unit at SRS and with the Wichita Children’s Home. These experiences led her into social work experiences addressing the mental health needs of youth in the Juvenile Justice system with Sedgwick County Department of Corrections, and providing outpatient adult and child individual, family and group therapy with Youthville Family Consultation Service. Shaunna has served as an Online Faculty Fellow from 2015-16, received a Tilford Fellowship in 2014-2015, served as a University Retention Fellow for 2016-2018, and as a Recruitment Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020. Ms. Millar co-Chairs the School's annual POWER Conference, is a member of the Kansas Council for Social Work Education, and a member of the National Association of Social Workers. Shaunna was named Wichita State "Phenomenal Woman of The Year" in 2018 and Recruitment Faculty Fellow for the 2020/21 school year.