Ethics for Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapy

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Online Course Description

A track-specific Ethics course is available for three tracks: Therapeutic Riding, Hippotherapy, and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy.

To begin to define ethics may be easier by defining what ethics is not. Ethics is not about or the same as religion. Ethics is not the same as following the law. Ethics is not a matter of following one's feelings. In fact, feelings often deviate from what is ethical.

So, what is ethics? This course begins by identifying the three categories of ethics -- descriptive, normative, and analytical -- and continues with ethical behavior-examples in each element as follows:

• Ethical culture
• Organizational ethics
• Conflict of interest
• Financial ethics
• Sexual harassment
• Discrimination
• Whistleblowers
• Plagiarism
• Ethical behavior and the Internet
• Each track-specific course also looks at the effects of applying or not applying ethics in an organization. Then, it takes ethics one step further and correlates being ethical to each introductory course in the corresponding Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapy track:
• Ethics in Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
• Ethics in Foundation of Hippotherapy
• Ethics in Therapeutic Riding

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Cost: $95

Register Now for the Ethics corresponding to your track of interest!

Continuing Education

Successful completion of this program earns the participant a certificate of attendance from Texas A&M University and 5 professional development hours or 0.5 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) appropriate to course content. Participants will be given one month to complete the 5-hour program.

CEUs:

• Are nationally recognized units earned for participation in qualifying continuing education programs
• May be used for professional advancement or as evidence of increased abilities, but not for college credit.

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Instructor Bio 

Carol Shields has worked with the Texas public school system for 21 years, serving in the areas of Business, Home Economics, Technology and Early Childhood as a teacher and professional development provider. She worked with Texas A&M and the Intel Teach to the Future Project as the Senior Trainer in which she provided in-service to over 150 Texas teachers. She has also developed multiple courses for the Texas A&M University online Master Technology Teacher Certification Program and the EC-12 Technology Applications Program.

Ms. Shields has a BS from Texas Woman’s University and a MS from the University of Southern Mississippi. She currently works as the district Instructional Technologist and Public Relations contact with Jacksonville ISD in Jacksonville, Texas.