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| Ethical behavior with colleagues |
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• Respect – I.e., no tweets about their attire…
• Confidentiality – Think case consultations…
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration – Respecting other disciplines.
• Referral for Services – No Quid Pro Quo .
• Sexual Relationships – Don’t sleep where you eat…
• Impairment or Incompetence – Confront & report as determined by agency policy & state law.
• Unethical Behavior – Follow proper procedures (agency, state boards. |
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| Ethical decision making - contextual or situational aspects of moral and ethical issues |
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1. Motives - Consider your primary and secondary purposes both as a person and as a social worker
2. Means - Consider the “ways” you might act
3. Ends - Consider the nature of the envisioned “ends” (goals) and determine if they are personal or professional
4. Effects - Consider the additional consequences that could result from use of the identified means and accomplishment of the envisioned ends |
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| Ethical responsibilities to clients |
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• Self-Determination - Individuals right to make own decisions.
• Informed Consent - Informing clients of all the facts, risks, and alternatives involved.
• Competence – We only practice within our abilities.
• Conflicts of Interests – Two competing interests that alters an intervention (e.g., referring a client to service provider who gives you a finders fee
• Privacy and Confidentiality – Proper access of records.
• Proper Boundaries – Disclosure is in client’s best interests, physical contact restrained, sexual overtones avoided, interaction is work related only.
• Payment for Services – Clients have responsibility for their treatment, gifts are not accepted for payment or gratitude. |
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• Organic – Schizophrenia & other psychotic disorders have their root in neurobiology
• Substance Induced – Drugs can cause psychosis
• Sleep Depravation – Psychosis common side effect, from waking dreams to acute psychosis.
• Toxic Exposure – Ergot poisoning (Salem Witch Trials)
• Features of Other Condition – Mood disorders & anxiety disorders can present with psychotic symptoms |
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| Home visit/ community safety |
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• Have a safety plan.
• Keep your agency informed of your plans and itinerary and check in by phone on a pre-arranged schedule.
• Assign two staff members for potentially dangerous home visits.
• Look around the neighborhood for potential dangers.
• Police are your friends, even if they don’t like it.
• Keep your vehicle in good running order and full of gasoline so that you will not find yourself stranded.
• If you are being followed, go immediately to a police or fire station or to a public place.
• Wear shoes and clothing that permit running.
• Have tools that are not weapons, but could aid in your safety. |
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| Strom-Gottfried’s (2000) common ethical violations – |
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• Sexual activity
• Dual relationship
• Other boundary violations
• Failure to seek supervision or consultation
• Failure to use accepted practice skills
• Fraudulent behavior
• Premature termination
• Inadequate provisions for case transfer or referral
• Failure to maintain adequate records or report
• Failure to discuss policies as part of informed consent |
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| The 3 purposes of assessment |
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• Understand the client’s presenting problem – The reason they are seeking services.
• Discover how biological, psychological, and/or sociological factors may be contributing to the problem AND how they may interfere, alter/limit, or otherwise affect your intervention.
• Help the client start to think differently about the problem (“Why are you asking about that?” “What does that have to do with…”) |
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| We only practice within our abilities |
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| Two competing interests that alters an intervention (e.g., referring a client to service provider who gives you a finders fee). |
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| The diagnostic guide for mental disorders including substance abuse/dependence (The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision) |
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| Dangerous client examples |
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• Those who are angry and feel mistreated by the agency and its staff.
• Those with substance abuse issues
• Those currently under the influence
• Those with a pattern of violent behavior
• Those with antiauthority attitudes
• Those with active psychosis
• Those with erotomania or stalker issues |
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| Dangerous persons (not clients) |
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• Disgruntled employees
• Former employees
• Family members of clients
• Abusive partners of clients
• “Sheepdogs”
• Individuals in the vicinity of your workplace. |
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| False beliefs about what is going on… e.g. - Paranoia, ideas of reference |
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Step 1. Recognize the problem
Step 2. Investigate the variables involved (the problem(s), agency role)
Step 3. Get feedback from others
Step 4. Appraise & evaluate what values and ethical standards apply to the dilemma
Step 6. Think about possible alternatives
Step 7. Make decision |
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| Problematic situations whose possible solutions all offer problematic situations whose possible solutions all offer imperfect and unsatisfactory answers in terms of what ethically should be done. |
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| Perceiving stimulus that is not there, also known as “Positive Symptoms” because something is added (auditory, visual, tactile). |
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| Mini Mental Status Exam – Assesment tool of lucidity |
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| a form of negligence that occurs when a practitioner acts in a manner inconsistent with the profession’s standard of care—the way an ordinary, reasonable, and prudent professional would act under the same or similar circumstances. |
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| A maladaptive pattern of psychological, emotional, and/or social behavior not related to an individual’s culture or developmental stage. |
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| Category of mental illnesses that are characterized by mood instability (e.g., Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar |
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| Something is taken away… e.g., catatonia, poverty of speech, “word salad,” blunted affect. More common with a dx of schizophrenia. |
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• Leave your office door partly open.
• Notify others if you are planning to meet a potentially dangerous.
• Have multiple ways to signal for help.
• Avoid meeting with clients when you are alone. |
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| An impairment in reality testing that can include positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations, delusions) and negative symptoms (e.g., catatonia). Psychosis ≠ schizophrenia |
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| Risk awareness for social work safety |
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• Most acts of violence are not spontaneous – They have built up over time
• There are predictable stages of escalation and indicators of violence
• Threats should never be ignored
• Previous violence should never be ignored |
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| Severely Mentally Ill. An individual is considered disabled due to mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia. |
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| Individuals rights to make own decision |
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| Temperament & day to day interactions |
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How we, generally speaking, interact with our world.
• Judging – Structure, schedule, purpose (Making lists, setting a schedule)
• Perceiving – Flexible, casual, open (Acting spontaneously, Postpone decisions to see what else may be available) |
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| Temperament & flow of energy |
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How we receive the essential part of our stimulation resulting in action.
• Introversion – From within, recharge alone
• Extraversion – From others – recharge with others. |
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| Temperament & preference in decision making |
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The way we commit to action.
• Thinking – Analysis of facts/data, consulting others (Research a purchase, resist buying a needless shirt)
• Feeling – Personal experience & values (Choose a job based on the work environment, buy something we don’t need but like) |
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| Temperament & taking in information |
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Our preferred method of taking in and absorbing information
• Sensing – Our five senses (tasting foods, memorize a song)
• iNtuiting – Instincts (Big picture consideration, finding new ways to do things) |
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• Extraverted or Introverted
• Sensing or Intuitive
• Thinking or Feeling
• Judging or Perceiving |
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| The 3 ways we harm clients without self-awareness |
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• Over-identification – You trade places
• Enmeshment – You share places
• Sexual Attraction/ Objectification – You touch places |
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| The 4 stages of a client who is acting out/in crisis |
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Stage 1: Initial Tension and Frustration
Stage 2: Verbal Attack
Stage 3: Loss of Control / Acting Out Person
Stage 4: Release |
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| The 4 things all assessments must be |
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• Client Centered
• Bio/psycho/social
• Strengths Focused
• Compliant with Regulations (agency, state, NASW, third-parties) |
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| The 4 ways to identify your "dark side" |
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• Others HAVE pointed them out
• What annoys you most in others?
• What critiques do you react the strongest to?
• What do those closest to you find most frustrating? |
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| The 6 core values of social work - |
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• Service
• Social Justice
• Dignity & Worth of the Individual
• Importance of Human Relationships
• Integrity
• Competence |
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| The social worker’s invisible ceiling |
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• If you are unaware of a weakness, you are not in control of it, and it is coming out in your practice.
• You can only take people as far as you have gone yourself.
• You are necessarily blind to your shortcomings – they are Ego Dystonic (unacceptable)
• Social work settings are ALL high stress, and will result in you regressing at times, leaving you vulnerable to your “stuff.” |
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| Three types of malpractice |
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1. Malfeasance - The professional intentionally engages in a practice known to be harmful
2. Misfeasance - The professional makes a mistake in the application of an acceptable practice
3. Nonfeasance - The professional fails to apply a standard, acceptable practice when action is needed |
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| Clients reaction to therapist |
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