Each student will select one question to answer. You must include the page number in the book which assisted you with your answer. Each student will comment on two of their peers responses. No two students may answer the same question.
1. Take the following scenario and use the 11 steps of the General Decision-Making Model to work it out.
Craig is a licensed social worker who has been working in a level 5 emotionally disturbed (ED) program in Wichita Co., Kansas. He has held his position in the Graves School for over three years and enjoys his work. He works in the preschool with children three to seven years of age and must answer to two administrators. His primary supervisor is the senior social worker, Lori, and his second supervisor is Ted, the director of the preschool program. Craig becomes concerned about the lack of assistance and staffing in the three ED classrooms. He is seeing students neglected, staff continually injured, and most infuriating, staff who are incompetent and due to their incompetence receive more assistance in the classroom than classrooms with more behaviorally challenged students. Craig reports this to his social work supervisor and then to the schools head administrator. He never once spoke with the director of the preschool about his concerns. After three weeks of seeing no changes implemented in the classrooms, Craig asks for a transfer to a new division in the school. He is so upset he transfers all of his cases to 5 different social workers in the course of 2 weeks.
2. List the seven ethical principles and discuss each one in detail.
3. Describe a social work practice situation where both society's interests and your client's interests are at stake. Discuss the ethical dilemma and what you see as your obligations to both. Then explain why you made the choices you did.
4. Define and contrast the efficiency criterion and the effectiveness criterion.
5. Explain in detail the concepts of Effectiveness and Efficiency, along with their similarities and differences.
6. Discuss how the protection of client’s rights and welfare is similar and different from the protection of society’s interests.
7. What is HIPPA and how does it specifically affect social work practice?
8. Discuss the meaning and purpose of the “Least Harm” principle.
9. Discuss with students the difference between absolute confidentiality and restricted confidentiality.
10. Despite well established ethical codes and principals, it's important to be cognizant of your own value system. Take some time to have an informal discussion with a classmate and share your ideas about values.
11. Discuss your own process in helping a client resolve a specific problem. Include how you reached a particular practice decision in this case, when a number of ethical principals were in conflict.
12. Discuss problems (professional problems - not personal problems ) that have occurred in your past or present placements and use Figure 4.1 on page 59 to work through the problems step-by-step.
4. Define and contrast the efficiency criterion and the effectiveness criterion.
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The effiency criterion is concerned with the relative cost of achieving a stated objective. Whenever two options will lead to the same result, the one that requires fewer resources is the more efficient one. The effectiveness criterion, on the other hand, relates to the degree to which the desired outcome is achieved. Difficult choices arise when the more efficient option is the less effective one or vice versa. In addition, making decisions only on the basis of efficiency and effectiveness criteria may result in unethical decisions.
8. Discuss the meaning and purpose of the “Least Harm” principle.
ReplyDelete“Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice” (Page 63)
The meaning “least harm” rule suggests choosing the option that will result in the least harm, the least permanent harm, and in some cases, or the most easily reversible harm. Some have suggested that the routine application of the least harm principle may diminish the possibility of choosing the most effective intervention technique. There may be times when it is justified to use an option that has great risks but enhances the likelihood of a successful outcome. The purpose of the “least harm” principle is to address problems that social workers are confronted with that have no positive choices.
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ReplyDelete7. What is HIPAA and how does it specifically affect social work practice?
ReplyDeleteHIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act specifically affects social work practice because changing definitions of rights may also create ethical problems for social workers. What is thought to be right at one time may not be right in another era. Some examples are confidentiality and adoption. At one time social workers were expected to protect confidentiality, no matter what the obstacles. Today, social workers remain concerned about confidentiality but may not be able to completely protect it for various reasons: changes in laws; court decisions; and the introduction of new technology. No social worker can ever assure complete confidentiality because the social worker often cannot control what others will do with the information they share with the interdisciplinary team.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 61-62. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
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ReplyDelete6. Discuss how the protection of client’s rights and welfare is similar and different from the protection of society’s interests.
ReplyDeleteThe definition of rights and privileges changes over time, and these changes may create ethical problems. What is thought to be a right at one time may not be so defined in another era --- for example, social workers were once expected to protect confidentiality, no matter what the obstacles. Today, social workers remain concerned about confidentiality but may not be able to completely protect it for various reasons: change in laws; court decisions; the introduction of new technologies; managed care and administrative record keeping required by funding and accredited organizations; participation and consultation with team members, inkling those from other disciplines; and responsibility to supervisors and courts.
Sometimes it is difficult to balance society’s interests with a client’s interests. If a client tells his social worker that he has committed a property crime, the social worker must weigh her obligations to the client against her obligations to society. Social control is one of the functions of every social worker, but also the maintenance of a helping relationship.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 61-62. Belmont: Cengage Learning
11. Discuss your own process in helping a client resolve a specific problem. Include how you reached a particular practice decision in this case, when a number of ethical principals were in conflict.
ReplyDeleteA specific problem that was presented were I would be of help, is if a child came to me having concerns about the way she is being treated at home. In her discussing the issue she explains how her father is touching her in weird places and as a result of this she doesn’t know what to do. In this case I would have to breach confidentiality in order to help the client. I would have to do an immediate investigation and remove the child from their home. The ethical principle in conflict is the right to privacy and confidentiality. However my decision was reached by abiding my the ethical principle involving the protection of human life. I had to make sure that my helping was in the best interest for the client.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 66-68. Belmont: Cengage Learning
9. Discuss with students the difference between absolute confidentiality and restricted confidentiality.
ReplyDeleteHow are my fellow classmates today? Today I am discussing the differences between absolute confidentiality and restricted confidentiality. When using the term absolute confidentiality information such as documentation or any kind of communication about a specific client should not be shared without the consent of the client. The term restricted confidentiality is information, documentation, or communication about a specific client is only done for a select few of government approved representatives such as a resident in a nursing home being transferred to another agency so the nursing home he was at faxed over the clients information. The two terms are totally different.
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ReplyDelete2. List the seven ethical principles and discuss each one in detail.
ReplyDeleteEthical Principle number one is the protection of human life in which this principle takes precedence over every other obligation. The second principle is the principle of equality and inequality in which this suggest that all persons in the same circumstances should be treated in the same way. Ethical principle number three is when a social worker makes practice decisions that foster a person’s self determination, autonomy, independence, and freedom. Principle number four is the least harm principle in which this principle holds that when faced with dilemmas that have potential for causing harm, a social worker should attempt to avoid or prevent harm. Ethical Principle number five is the quality of life for all people. In this the case the social worker has to be able to choose the options that promote the quality of life. Ethical Principle number six is persons right to privacy and confidentiality. In this principle professionals have a duty to protect the privacy of clients and groups to the greatest extent possible. Lastly the seventh principle is to fully disclose all relevant information in which in this principle the social worker should practice decisions that will permit her to speak the truth and fully disclose relevant information to her client and others.
Pgs 67-68
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ReplyDelete5. Explain in detail the concepts of Effectiveness and Efficiency, along with their similarities and differences.
ReplyDeleteDolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. Belmont: Cengage Learning. Pg. 62
Effectiveness and efficiency are two different terms when it comes to ethical decision making. Difficult choices arise when the more efficient option is less effective. The efficiency criterion is concerned with the relative cost (including budges, staff time, agency, and community resources) of achieving a stated objective. The effectiveness criterion, on the other hand, relates to the degree to which desire outcome is achieved. They are not the same, however you need both to be successful in running business and when making decisions.
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ReplyDelete5. Explain in detail the concepts of Effectiveness and Efficiency, along with their
similarities and differences.
Being effective means producing powerful effects, for example if you have a list of things to do you may sometimes focus on just one or two things to make them perfect rather than working on the whole list you created for yourself, . Being efficient means producing results with little wasted effort. It is the ability to carry out actions quickly, with this concept you would complete more, but you didn’t put any effort into the situation. The similarities would be that the goal would be to complete a task; the differences would be that with one you would have to spend more time completing a task and with the other you really wouldn’t spend any time completing a task.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 63-64. Belmont: Cengage Learning
The affiance criterion is concerned with the relative cost of achieving a stated objective. Whenever two options will lead to the same result, the one that requires fewer resources is the more efficient one. The effectiveness criterion, on the other hand, relates to the degree to which the desired outcome is achieved. Difficult choices arise when the more efficient option is the less effective one or vice versa. In addition, making decisions only on the basis of efficiency and effectiveness criteria may result in unethical decisions.
ReplyDeleteDolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. Pg 63-64 Belmont: Cengage Learning.
2. List the seven ethical principles and discuss each one in detail.
ReplyDeleteHumanistic, religious, ethics of caring, feminist, and virtue ethics are the five approaches to ethical decision-making. Humanistic ethics is a decision made by what makes sense to individual. Religious ethics decision is made by their belief in God. Ethics of caring has the since of sympathy, empathy, sensitive, and responsiveness. According to the book, feminist ethics are women centered and focused primarily on women’s moral experience. Virtue ethics originated by Apostale, who argued there are no general roles for god or right action these are the five appearances to ethical-decision making.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. Pg. 47-52 Belmont: Cengage Learning.
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