WK 2 (CH.11-14): Ethics Flashcards

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Ethical dilemma

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When a SW must decode between 2 viable solutions that seem to hace a similar ethical value

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What are the 6 core values in NASW?

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  1. Service
  2. Social Justice
  3. Dignity & Worth of a person
  4. Importance of human relationship
  5. Integrity
  6. Competence
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Steps in Ethical Problem Solving

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  1. Identify ethical standars -NASW code of ethics 1st!!
  2. Determine- ethical issue or dilemma
  3. Weigh erhical issues
  4. Suggest modifications
  5. Implement modification
  6. Monitor for new ethical issues or dilemma
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Self- determination

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The concept taht clients are qualified to make their own decisions about their lives

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Emancipation

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A legal process taht ends the right & responsibilities of parents over minir children
-partial or complete

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Subpoena

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A SW should respond & claim privilage but not turn over records unless the count issues a subsequent order to do so

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7
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Court order records

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Try to limit its scope &/or ask that the records be sealed

-only release what is necessary

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Advocate role

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SW champion the right of orhers w/ the goal of empowering the client system being served
-speak on behalf of the client

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Broker role

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SW is responsible for identifying, locating, linking client systems to needed resources in a timely fashion

EX: Broker- assisting a buyer to buy a home

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Change agent role

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Participates as part of a group or organization seeking to improve or restructure some aspect of service

-SEEK TO IMPROVE

EX: Home depot to improve/ restructure home

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Counselor role

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Focusing on improving social functioning
-articulate need, clarify the problem, explore resolution, apply intervention

EX: Using client’s strengths- case management CRC

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Mediator role

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SW intervene in dispotes between parties to help them find compromises, reconcite differences, reach mutually satisfying agreements

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13
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Primary role of a SW

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Act as a resource
-Assuming various roles depending upon the nature of client problems

-What ever the client needs an SW must be

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14
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Transference

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Redirection of client feelings for a significant person to a SW

  • an obstacle to treatment
  • happens on unconscious level

EX: Therapist reminds the client of a friend. client to the therapist

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Countertransference

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SW feelings towards the client; emotional entanglement w/ client

Projecting own feelings on to the client based on my own experiences

EX: Client construction worker. reminds SW of dad who is also a construction worker. Start playing favoritism

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16
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Cycle of violence

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  1. Tension building
  2. Battering incident
  3. Loving/ honeymoon
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Burnout

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State of physical, emotional, psychological, &/or spiritual exhaustion

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Secondary trauma

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Behaviors & emotions that result from knowledge about traumatizing events expwrienced by clients

19
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Compassion fatigue

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Syndrome consisting of a combination of the symptoms of secondary trauma & burnout

20
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Process of engagement in SW

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  1. Engagement
  2. Assessment
  3. Planning
21
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Using strength-based perspective in self-determination

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All clients are assumed to be competent to make their own decisions in financial & treatment options

22
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Empathic communication

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  • Establish rapport
  • Start where the CL is
  • Increases level which CL explore themselves & their problem
  • Respond to nonverbal msg’s
  • Decrease defensiveness
  • Defuse anger
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What are the 7 steps in “General Decision-Making Model”

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  1. Identify ppl involved in problem
  2. Determine who should be involved in decision making
  3. Identify relative values
  4. Identify goals/ objectives
  5. Identify alternative intervention strategies & assess effectiveness
  6. Select & implement strategies
  7. Monitor implementations
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What is “Competing Loyalties”

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SW representing both society & CL = each having conflicting demands

-Identifying the person or unit that should receive priority becomes an ethical issue

25
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What are “Competing Values”

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Ethical dilemma being faced w/ 2+ competing values

EX: Confidentiality & Protection of Life

26
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2 main causes of ethical problems

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Competing values

Competing loyalties

27
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What is “Ethical Absolutism”

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Any ethical theory that claims that there are ethical rules that hold regardless of society, culture, or religion

  • Standards apply to everyone everywhere!
28
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What is “Ethical Relativism”

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Theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms of one’s culture

-Right/ wrong action depends on the moral of the society, in which it’s practiced

29
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What are the 5 SW roles

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Advocate 
Mediator 
Counselor
Broker 
Change agent