Social Work Ethics Chapter 7-12

To be an advocate and to engage in advocacy is to:

Adopt a particular stance about an issue of concern Advance a cause Attempt to produce a result in behalf of a person, group, or cause

Social workers are obligated to eliminate discrimination by:

Advocating

Engaging in a sexual relationship with a client is grounds for legal action in what number of states?

All 50 states

Agency risk audits are conducted for which of the following reasons?

All of the above

Social workers, who participate with interdisciplinary teams should do which of the following

Attain the knowledge and skill needed to contribute to ethical discussions. Seek multidisciplinary ethical training sessions Remind colleagues of the rights of clients.

Limited resources is a concept that can mean many different things, such as:

Available resources are used elsewhere Agency priorities have changed Legislative commitments change

With regards to the professional relationship, a social worker is to:

Be honest.

Which of the following is about confidentiality?

Confidentiality ethical principle is based on oversimplified practice model that includes only the social worker and the client.

Which of the following are important in establishing accountability of a program or an intervention?

Courts and government

Informed consent involves

Disclosure of information Clients competence Clients volunteering for treatment

According to the Tarasoff ruling a therapist must keep confidentiality even when the client makes believable threat to kill another person.

False

Autonomy, selfdetermination, and confidentiality are the most important ethical principles in the military

False

Discrimination does not exist in the provision of health, mental health, and child welfare services.

False

Dual roles are always considered to be conflict of interest.

False

Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency states must always place the needs of above his own needs.

False

HIPAA is a voluntary agreement between healthcare providers to safeguard patients' medical information.

False

Having sex with a client is acceptable so long as it is consensual.

False

Long term therapy is the preferred mode of intervention of the managed care organizations.

False

Managed care allows the social worker and patient complete autonomy

False

NASW membership is immediately revoked if a social worker is convicted of a misderneanor or felony charge.

False

Native Americans in the United States live an average of 5 years longer any other ethnic group.

False

Over two million people in the US are infected with HIV/AIDS with an estimated sixty thousand new cases annually

False

Practitioner discrimination rarely affects mental health diagnosis.

False

Research suggests that reporting child abuse interferes with the therapeutic relationship.

False

Social workers and other professionals who are required to report suspected child abuse and neglect admit to reporting only about 75 percent of the cases they suspect

False

social worker must report a colleague to NASW if the worker discovers that the colleague has acted in an unethical manner

False

A number of factors have combined to escalate health care costs beyond the rate of inflation in the Among these factors are

Growing aged population, costly new treatments, emphasis on acute care rather preventive care

Which of the following is an example of unethical behavior that might arise with a colleague?

Having sexual relations with a client or superviser

Which of the following steps would be ethically appropriate when the worker has knowledge of child abuse in a family she is working with?

Help the family member to call CPS themselves

Poor supervision consists of the supervisor's:

Inability to share performance evaluations with workers Lack of weekly supervision Poor documentation

Which of the following dual relationships between therapist and client should be avoided?

Investing money in the client's new business. Recommending a client's business to potential buyers . Dating a client

When a worker must make diagnosis order to obtain third-party payments, they tend to use the least noxious diagnosis" because

It allows the Insurance company to see that the client really is in need of services It can protect the dlient's future employment prospects . It limits the adverse impact on clients self esteem should they become aware of the diagnosis.

Managed organizations make providing therapy difficult in which of the following ways?

Limiting the length of treatment Denying care

Discuss your feelings related to same-sex couples adopting: with so many children in the child welfare system needing permanent homes, should there be so much discrimination against same-sex couples adopting?

No. There should not be any discrimination towards families especially same-sex couples adopting. Same-sex couples have every right to adopt a child just like everyone else regardless of their sexual orientation. The sexual orientation of parents should not determine if a couple will be bad parents or not. If the same-sex parents love the child and care for them that is all that matters.

In the 2008 McBeath and Meezan study comparing the outcomes of children who received fee based services with the outcomes of those who received managed care services, which of the following was found to be true?

Performance-based managed care is related to suppressed service provision and service disparities.

Discrimination can be the result of

Pre-judging others on the basis of unproven assumptions about individuals and groups, and pre-existing feelings and attitudes unrelated to the actual persons

Which of the following is NOT considered advocacy as whistle-blowing?

Protecting clients from bill collectors

Which of the following would be considered to be "dumping a client?

Referring a client who can no longer pay for services

Which of the following is NOT an ethical dilemma that has developed as a result of technology?

Sharing of files with colleagues

A supervisor may be charged with direct liability when which of the following occurs?

Supervisor causes harm through acts of omission or commission . Supervisor does not follow state board guidelines for providing supervision

Studies show that after a therapist reports a client for child abuse, the client tends to stay in therapy, if which of the following exists?

The client was a participant in the informed consent process There was a strong therapeutic alliance prior to the report. Confidentiality was fully discussed prior to the report.

Which of the following is NOT a network or social system which supports the social worker in ethical decision making?

The community

Which of following represents a conflict of interest?

The social worker is selling Amway and she gets out her catalogs so that she can sell to the client at the end of every session.

Peer review meetings are important because

They allow for social workers to discuss cases with colleagues to gain insight.

1. A social worker who maintains overly rigid boundaries with clients may be seen as distant and cold.

True

Among NASW members, there is much confusion and disagreement as to what constitutes appropriate ethical practice.

True

An ethical dilemma occurs when available resources are limited and choices have to be made about who will receive services.

True

Children of color and their families experience better outcomes and receive more services than their Caucasian counterparts in the child welfare system.

True

Exploration of sacred stories and symbols and incorporation of art, dance, and poetry are ways in which spiritual matters can be introduced into social work practice.

True

Gay men and lesbians often encounter legal or other barriers when they attempt to adopt children.

True

HITECH is a federal law which was passed to encourage health care providers to use health information technology

True

In order to provide a "reimbursable service" for a client, the practitioner may have to consider fudging the diagnosis in some way.

True

Managed care is one major strategy developed in an attempt to control health and mental health costs by monitoring access to and the type of health care patients receive from health care practitioners or HMOs.

True

Many states require ethics content as part of continuing education requirements for license renewal.

True

Peer reviews allow a social worker to bounce ethical dilemmas off his/her colleagues.

True

Poorly written documentation can expose social workers to greater liability risk.

True

Repeatedly hearing about the trauma that clients have experienced can result in PTSD in the social worker.

True

Social workers are responsible both ethically and legally when confronted by abuse of elderly persons.

True

The most needy and most vulnerable groups of people should receive a greater share of resources and services in order to obtain fair opportunities.

True

The professional role introduces a power imbalance in the relationship the client has certain needs and the social worker has various powers.

True

Wornen are more likely to be murdered by intimate partners than by any other assailant.

True

social worker testifying in court can only withhold confidential information if client-social worker privilege has been granted by state law.

True

Discrimination in society and the profession makes it difficult to achieve social work's goals and ethical aims-of equal access for the fulfillment of individuals and the society.

Truè

Which of the following is NOT part of informed consent?

Using professional terminology

When the worker is asking the client to consent to the disclosure of confidential information to a third party, he must inform the client of which of the following?

What information will be released. Who will receive the information. The purpose of releasing the information

Which two actions were viewed as the most unethical behaviors by both supervisors and supervisees in Worthington, Tan, and Poulin's 2002 study?

intentionally fabricating information and forging a supervisor's signature

Discuss what you have learned in this class. What would you change? What would you like to know more about? Do you feel some of the ethical requirements are too extreme or too relaxed?

learned how social workers can make ethical decision making as well as the ethical conduct of social workers. I learned about how social workers can handle ethical dilemmas and assess them. feel that the class does need to be changed. I would like know more about the different ethical dilemmas that can occur. I feel the ethical requirements are just right. Social workers are held at a higher standard than other professions.