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. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the three value messages of value neutrality, imposing values, and the client-worker value gap.
2. Discuss several ways in which value neutrality could cause harm to a client.
3. Discuss the two ways that social workers can deal with their value differences with their clients.
4. Discuss two instances where it is ok for a social worker to be directive or paternalistic with a client.
5. Discuss the potential harm that can plague a client due to the social work practitioner imposing their values onto the client.
6. Discuss the argument that no matter how hard a practitioner tries, he or she will never be able to be value neutral.
7. Discuss how value neutrality and imposing values can cause harm to the therapeutic alliance.
8. Discuss your thoughts related to the gap between a worker’s personal values and those of the social work client.
9. Discuss whether you believe that value suspension is a realistic option for social workers.
10. Discuss some situations in which it is inadvisable for the social worker to work with clients whose values are significantly contrary to those of the worker.
11. Discuss your thoughts on the following comment: The contemporary social worker who bases her practice on value neutrality may be avoiding all moral dilemmas by accepting the client’s absolute right for self-determination.
12. Discuss Figure 7.1, The Continuum of Social Work Values, on page 120. Have the class apply Figure 7.1 to Exemplar 7.2 Loyalty to Self or Family? on page 117
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 115. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
ReplyDelete7. Discuss how value neutrality and imposing values can cause harm to the therapeutic alliance.
Value neutrality and imposing values can cause harm to the therapeutic alliance by:
Failing to chalenge a client's behavior may result in that client thinking that the social worker approves of what he does. The worker may attend her silence to be an expression of value neutrality, but her silence may be interperted as a signal of acceptanceof that behavior.
Attention is not paid to potentially self destructive acts.
Social workers fail to distinguish between what is functional or dysfunctional, normative or pathological behavior.
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5. Discuss the potential harm that can plague a client due to the social work practitioner imposing their values onto the client.
ReplyDelete-Such self-disclosure of the worker’s values may enhance the client’s comfort with a sense of trust in the practitioner. However, value self-disclosure may be harmful when used inappropriately or at the wrong time, especially early in the professional relationship. Spreo (1990) and Strean (1997) concluded that any short-term advantages of a worker’s value disclosure may be cancelled by long-term harmful effects.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 117. Belmont: Cengage Learning
8. Discuss your thoughts related to the gap between a worker’s personal values and those of the social work client.
ReplyDeleteI think that a social workers personal values should never interfere with a clients. I was trained through previous social work classes not to bring personal values nor personal judgments into the professional field with a client. Usually a competent social workers values will differ with their client population.
2. Discuss several ways in which value neutrality could cause harm to a client.
ReplyDeleteThere are several reasons as to why value neutrality can cause harm to a client. Value neutrality can cause damage to a situation when attention is not paid to potentially self-destructive or other-destructive acts. It can cause damage when social workers fail to distinguish between what is functional or dysfunctional, normative or pathological behavior. It can also cause damage when failing to challenge a clients behavior may result in that client thinking that the social worker approves of what he does. The worker may intend her silence to be an expression of value neutrality, but her silence may interpreted as a signal of acceptance of that behavior.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 115. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
Value neutrality can cause damage to client if they're not getting the support the feel they need, which can easily to lead unsafe situations if the client decides to act destructive towards they're self or others. It is important the social worker works effectively to keep the client safe and also try to help. However not all clients will perceive it that way.
DeleteValue neutrality can cause damage to client if they're not getting the support the feel they need, which can easily to lead unsafe situations if the client decides to act destructive towards they're self or others. It is important the social worker works effectively to keep the client safe and also try to help. However not all clients will perceive it that way.
DeleteValue neutrality can cause damage to client if they're not getting the support the feel they need, which can easily to lead unsafe situations if the client decides to act destructive towards they're self or others. It is important the social worker works effectively to keep the client safe and also try to help. However not all clients will perceive it that way.
Delete11. Discuss your thoughts on the following comment: The contemporary social worker who bases her practice on value neutrality may be avoiding all moral dilemmas by accepting the client’s absolute right for self-determination.
ReplyDeleteI feel that this comment is true for the most part. When giving the client complete self-determination you should not let your values and morals interfere with their change process. If the situation does affect that strongly where it affects your professional behaviors you should not have that client in your workload. When you begin working with clients you should already know that while in practice your personal values should not interfere with your work. If you are constantly encountering this situation you might want to re-evaluate your ability to in the social work profession.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 115. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
3. Discuss the two ways that social workers can deal with their value differences with their clients.
ReplyDeleteTwo ways that social workers can deal with value difference with their clients who be (1) to discuss their findings with the client so that together they can participate indetermining whether these differences might complicate the social work process, (2) a joint decision should be made whether to continue the social work process or whether to refer the client to another social worker with more congruent values, if such a worker is available.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 114. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
6. Discuss the argument that no matter how hard a practitioner tries, he or she will never be able to be value neutral.
ReplyDeleteValue of neutral is suggested by Weick that is a professional practice requires listening to what the client is really saying “without imposing one’s own values, beliefs or judgments”. Some clinicians view the requirements of neutrality as a fundamental clinical and ethical principle. In certain situations when dealing with clients it’s explained that one reason for suspending value of judgments is that it’s not the social worker’s role to impose on the clients values about matters on drug use, life style choices or personal relationships. As social worker we understand the meaning of self-determination and understand that what may seem wrong to me might seem right to the client. As a social worker we don’t push our beliefs on our clients, the value of neutrality is itself to understand that social workers that base their practice on value of neutrality may be avoiding all moral dilemmas by accepting the client’s absolute right for self-determination.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 114-114. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
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ReplyDelete5. Discuss the potential harm that can plague a client due to the social work practitioner imposing their values onto the client.
The first thing you learn when becoming a social worker is that you can never push off your values and beliefs off on the client. Because if something goes wrong with what they tell the client their values should be, it will fall back on the social work practitioner and also the agency that he or she is working at. That’s why they clients have to have their values and belief, and that’s were self determination comes into play.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 115. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
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ReplyDeleteRacism can interfere with a social worker's ability to. If a social worker encounters a racist client who exemplifies racism towards a, the social worker should always handle the situation in the most professional and ethical way possible. Racist clients can interfere with a social workers ability to help and provide appropriate resources. Social workers can also have trouble with racism within the office of the perspective social service agency. An example of this would be a boss sending a specific group of people to you for service because of his or her dislike of their ethnicity. This can cause problems within the work place. These are just a couple examples of the complex issue of racism impeding a social workers ability to help.
ReplyDeleteDolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 120. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 115-117. Belmont: Cengage Learning.
ReplyDelete9. Discuss whether you believe that value suspension is a realistic option for social workers.
I believe value suspension is a realistic option for social workers. Suspension of judgment means that the social workers would relates to the clients whole person and his strengths, instead of on his weakness and problems. For example, using the strength based approach wear you look at the strength in every problem instead of the negatives. You try to understand the client in the terms of their total personal history, environment, culture and community. Covert value messages are more powerful than overt ones. Social workers have to designed strategies to modify or change the beliefs and values of the client. Value self-disclosure may be harmful when used inappropriately or at the wrong time; especially in the begging phase when still trying to build rapport.
1. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the three value messages of value neutrality, imposing values, and the client-worker value gap.
ReplyDeleteThe similarities of value neutrality, imposing values, and the clients-workers value gap is they all oppose there values on a client. If a person chose to get an abortion and the social worker disagree the social work is opposing their person opinion on them. The difference is client-workers value gap may occur in difference of belief contrast to value neutrality respects self-determination.
Dolgoff, R., Frank, L., & Donna, H. (2009). Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice. pg 112-117. Belmont: Cengage Learning