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Ethical Framework - Values Informing the Ethical Framework

The fundamental values of play and creative arts therapies and filial play 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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