WK 2 (CH.11-14): Ethics Flashcards
Ethical dilemma
When a SW must decode between 2 viable solutions that seem to hace a similar ethical value
What are the 6 core values in NASW?
- Service
- Social Justice
- Dignity & Worth of a person
- Importance of human relationship
- Integrity
- Competence
Steps in Ethical Problem Solving
- Identify ethical standars -NASW code of ethics 1st!!
- Determine- ethical issue or dilemma
- Weigh erhical issues
- Suggest modifications
- Implement modification
- Monitor for new ethical issues or dilemma
Self- determination
The concept taht clients are qualified to make their own decisions about their lives
Emancipation
A legal process taht ends the right & responsibilities of parents over minir children
-partial or complete
Subpoena
A SW should respond & claim privilage but not turn over records unless the count issues a subsequent order to do so
Court order records
Try to limit its scope &/or ask that the records be sealed
-only release what is necessary
Advocate role
SW champion the right of orhers w/ the goal of empowering the client system being served
-speak on behalf of the client
Broker role
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
Change agent role
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
Counselor role
Focusing on improving social functioning
-articulate need, clarify the problem, explore resolution, apply intervention
EX: Using client’s strengths- case management CRC
Mediator role
SW intervene in dispotes between parties to help them find compromises, reconcite differences, reach mutually satisfying agreements
Primary role of a SW
Act as a resource
-Assuming various roles depending upon the nature of client problems
-What ever the client needs an SW must be
Transference
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
Countertransference
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
Cycle of violence
- Tension building
- Battering incident
- Loving/ honeymoon
Burnout
State of physical, emotional, psychological, &/or spiritual exhaustion
Secondary trauma
Behaviors & emotions that result from knowledge about traumatizing events expwrienced by clients
Compassion fatigue
Syndrome consisting of a combination of the symptoms of secondary trauma & burnout
Process of engagement in SW
- Engagement
- Assessment
- Planning
Using strength-based perspective in self-determination
All clients are assumed to be competent to make their own decisions in financial & treatment options
Empathic communication
- Establish rapport
- Start where the CL is
- Increases level which CL explore themselves & their problem
- Respond to nonverbal msg’s
- Decrease defensiveness
- Defuse anger
What are the 7 steps in “General Decision-Making Model”
- Identify ppl involved in problem
- Determine who should be involved in decision making
- Identify relative values
- Identify goals/ objectives
- Identify alternative intervention strategies & assess effectiveness
- Select & implement strategies
- Monitor implementations
What is “Competing Loyalties”
SW representing both society & CL = each having conflicting demands
-Identifying the person or unit that should receive priority becomes an ethical issue
What are “Competing Values”
Ethical dilemma being faced w/ 2+ competing values
EX: Confidentiality & Protection of Life
2 main causes of ethical problems
Competing values
Competing loyalties
What is “Ethical Absolutism”
Any ethical theory that claims that there are ethical rules that hold regardless of society, culture, or religion
- Standards apply to everyone everywhere!
What is “Ethical Relativism”
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
What are the 5 SW roles
Advocate Mediator Counselor Broker Change agent
