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Ethics for Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapy

by KBerg — last modified 2009-03-11 10:40

Online program offered in three of the four tracks in Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapy Program.

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Online Program Description

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

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 program 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 program 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 program in the corresponding Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapy track:

Ethics in Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
Ethics in Foundations of Hippotherapy
Ethics in Therapeutic Riding

Cost: $99

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 program 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.

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 programs 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.

If you have questions about Ethics, please contact Carol Shields at: carolsshields@hotmail.com.