Professional Relationships, Values, and Ethics Flashcards
ETHICS AUDIT (definition & main purpose)
- Helps social workers assess ethical issues systematically & comprehensively.
MAIN PURPOSE:
—- consistent with efforts to protect clients and others from harm.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
To put political pressure on officials to act on pending legislation. (Illegal)
Ex. Sit-ins.
Confidentiality Vs. Privileged Communication
- confidentiality = client info NOT shared with 3rd party
- Privileged Communication = client info disclosed in court or during other legal proceedings.
BIOETHICS
Analysis & study of moral, legal, social, and ethical considerations involving biological/medical science.
What is PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVITY?
Communication that is unburdened by emotions.
What is INSTITUTIONALIZED DISCRIMINATION?
A pattern of negative tx of a group, within an organization, based on an attribute such as race. It is subtle and deeply rooted.
What is TRAUMA-BONDING?
When client wants to go back to or stay with their abusers. They believed they caused the abuser to be this way and that they can change them.
What is UNIVERSALIZATION?
- A conflict between a client religion and client wants.
- A supportive intervention to reassure and encourage clients through generalizing/ normalizing their strife.
What is a STATIC risk factor?
Something that cannot be changed.
Ex. A client’s history.
What is a DYNAMIC risk factor?
Something that can be changed.
Ex. Employment status, substance abuse, stress level.
Entropy
To decrease or eliminate.
Negative entropy
To maintain/increase order and harmony.
Disclosure of privileged information, WITHOUT client’s consent, is legally influenced by what?
- Relevant statutes
- judicial opinion
- state/ federal regulations
Purpose: Indian child welfare act 1978
- To prevent disproportionate removal of Native American children from their families and community by state child welfare agencies.
Applicability of: Indian child welfare act 1978
_ Applies to any child who’s a member of a federally recognized tribe.
Placement and tribe notification: Indian child welfare act 1978
-placement:
—- when placing a child who has been removed from their have, prioritize a member of extended family; foster hame licensed by the tribe; or another Native American within the child’s tribe.
Tribe notification:
—- before social work takes any action, the child’s tribe must be notified of the case and be given the opportunity to intervene.
What is a TERMINATION OF LETTERS?
A formal written document sent to a client signifying end of their social work services, detailing…
1. Reason for termination.
2. Progress summary of treatment.
3. Necessary steps/ referrals for client.
- Termination of services for nonpayment: “ fee for service”—- what are the stipulations?
- The financial contractual arrangement has been made clear to the client.
- If the client does NOT pose an imminent danger to self or others.
- If the clinical and other consequences of the current nonpayment have been addressed and discussed with the client.
What is the primary aim of clinical supervision?
To ensure quality of care and safeguarding client welfare.
What is the social worker’s ethical duty with an absent client or legal exception ?
The social worker must claim privilege on behalf of the client.
What limits a client’s right to self-determination?
Client’s actions (or potential actions)pose a serious, foreseeable and imminent risk to self/others.
Meta-communication
The context within which to interpret the content of a message.
Ex. Non verbal, body language, tone
Requesting client records: subpoenas have legal authority only when…?
Accompanied by court orders signed by a judge.
An unemancipated child’s legal ability to consent to treatment depends on…?
- Age
- Service requested
- The state in which they are seeking assistance.