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