Evaluate how individuals can promote health and wellness into late adulthood and mitigate the negative effects of aging.

Making Difficult Ethical Decisions

Introduction

Karen is a Latina, lesbian woman who decided to come out to her family and classmates when she started her second year in her psychology doctoral program. She thought that things would be easier now that she could be her “true self” around her family and friends. However, several people were not as accepting of her as she would have liked, including her parents and four siblings. As a result, she struggles to keep up with schoolwork, is tearful during class, and becomes upset while in conferences with professors. The faculty members at her school are talking about requiring her to start psychological treatment to deal with these issues and are even considering removing her from the program.

Instructions

Respond to the following:

• What does “The Code” say about the suggestions of the faculty?
• What are the cultural implications of doing what they are suggesting?
• Apply Fisher’s ethical decision-making model, discussed in Chapter 3 of Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide, to this situation.
• Determine how to handle Karen’s situation.

Your initial discussion post should be at least 200 words.

Prepare a 1,200- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze late adulthood and the death of an individual as a culmination of the life span developmental process. Be sure to address the following items in your paper.

• Examine ageism and stereotypes associated with late adulthood.
• Evaluate how individuals can promote health and wellness into late adulthood and mitigate the negative effects of aging.
• Analyze the importance of relationships and social interactions as an individual nears end of life.
• Identify cultural and personal attitudes about death and dignity in late adulthood.