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Ethical Framework - Values Informing the Ethical Framework
The fundamental values of play, creative arts and filial therapies include a commitment to:
Respecting human rights and dignity
Ensuring the integrity of practitioner-client relationships
Enhancing the quality of professional knowledge and its application
Enabling children to develop emotionally, socially and academically to their full potential
Alleviating personal distress and suffering
Fosterlng a sense of self that is meaningful to the person(s) concerned
Increasing personal effectiveness
Enhancing the quality of relationships between children and children and adults
Appreciating the variety of human experience and culture
Promoting the need for the equitable and adequate provision of therapeutic play, creative arts and filial therapies for children
Consciously applying quality management and clinical governance principles in all therapeutic work
Values inform principles. They represent an important way of expressing a general ethical commitment that becomes more precisely defined and action-orientated when expressed as a principle.
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