Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathem Alkhateeb, the University Psychological Counseling Unit at the College of Pharmacy/ University of Baghdad held an in-person workshop as part of Counseling Week, entitled “From Dutifulness to Professionalism: How Does Respect for Parents Reflect on the Pharmacist’s Ethics?” delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Zainab Thabit Saleh, faculty member in the Pharmaceutics Department.
The workshop aimed to explore how honoring parents shapes the ethical and professional behavior of pharmacists. It highlighted that parental respect builds core traits such as patience, empathy, emotional control, and effective communication skills essential for patient care.
The workshop included several topics like:: clarifying the concept of honoring parents from a psychological and social perspective, explaining the impact of respecting parents on developing important professional skills such as patience, empathy, listening well, and controlling emotions when dealing with patients, especially the elderly, discussing the psychological and behavioral effects of disobeying parents and its negative impact on the individual’s ability to communicate humanly and achieve emotional stability, and thus on his academic and professional performance Highlighting the relationship between straightness and pharmaceutical ethics and how values such as compassion, respect, integrity, and responsibility are instilled first within the family.
The workshop concluded that practicing parental dutifulness and maintaining positive relationships with parents provide psychological strength and contribute significantly to ethical and successful practice in the pharmacy profession.
