ABSTRACT
However, ethical problems are also constantly held forth as something important to relate to, something that takes care of human relationships in a different way from our knowledge-based thinking. The family therapist Harlene Anderson says that her “ideas come from an ethical position”. The word “ethics” is originally a Greek concept. The word “ethos” means custom or habit; the equivalent in Latin is “morals”. Traditional ethical theory has largely an individual focus, in which the understanding of how one can attend to the interests of another person is linked to individual qualities or skills. Professional ethics is usually an outline of some important principles that one believes should be taken care of in the professional encounter. The ethical theories have their developmental history. In ancient Greece, the society was comparatively simple, and being part of the social community was not problematized in the way we have become used to.
