From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics

Abstract

Each chapter opens with Introduction, and closes with Bibliography. Cases close with Questions for Thought and Discussion. Preface. Introduction: Elements of Ethical Decision-Making. Defining The Ethical Problem. Gathering Information. Theoretical Concepts. From Theories to Principles. Using The Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Values, Societal Values, Personal Values. Defining Options, Arriving At a Resolution. Case Presentations. 1. NASW Ethical Standard One: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to Clients. Case Study 1-1: Protecting the Interests of a Minor, Elena Glekas, MSW. Case Study 1-2: When the Best Interests of Client Harms a Third Party, Karen E. Altenberg, MSW. Case Study 1-3: When Living Feels Like Dying: Ethical Decision Making with a Depressed Dialysis Patient, Mary A. Kardauskas, MSW. Case Study 1-4: Reading the Future: When Best Interest Must Last Twenty Years, Amy Craig-Van Grack, MSW. Case Study 1-5: In the Client's Interest: Self Determination and Mental Retardation, Jose Carlos Vera. Case Study 1-6: The Adoption Records Controversy: Three Primary Clients Whose Interests May Conflict, Sarah M. Russell. Case Study 1-7: Believing a Disturbed Child: Abused or Confused, Shahla R. Adam, MSW. 2. NASW Ethical Standard Two: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues. Case Study 2-1: Share and Share Alike: A Dilemma in Professional Educational Development, Karen A. Wilson, MSW. Case Study 2-2: Colleague Misconduct: What's an Intern to Do? Jeanine Castilho da Silva, MSW. Case Study 2-3: When a Colleague Defines Policy--and You Don't Agree! Linda Lopez, MSW. 3. NASW Ethical Standard Three: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to Practice Settings. Case Study 3-1: Can Limitation of Informed Consent by an Agency Ever Be Justified? Diane Inselburg Spirer, MSW, M.S. Case Study 3-2: Computerized Record Keeping: Agency Efficiency vs. Privacy, Aimee H. Mclain, MSW. Case Study 3-3: Meeting the Needs of Immigrants: Must Acculturation Be a Condition of Agency Service? Thomas W. Gray, Ph.D. Case Study 3-4: Confidentiality in a Special School Setting: What is the Student's Interest? Patricia DeJesus, MSW. Case Study 3-5: An Employee Assistance Counselor's Dilemma, Mel Hall-Crawford, MSW. Case Study 3-6: Group Therapy: Needs and Fiscal Viability, Tom Bertone, MSW, CSC. 4. NASW Ethical Standard Four: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities As Professionals. Case Study 4-1: When a Threatens Suicide: Autonomy and Professional Obligation, Gigi Stowe, MSW. Case Study 4-2: Now that You're Leaving, Why Can't We Just Be Friends?, Joanna P. Martin, MSW. Case Study 4-3: The Professional in Peer Support Groups: Where Do We Fit In? Mickey J. Smith, MSW, CAC. Case Study 4-4: Fidelity to a Unable To Communicate, Marian D. Kaufman, MSW. 5. NASW Ethical Standard Five: Social Worker's Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession. Case Study 5-1: My Clients Are in a Hurry! Professional Integrity versus Self Determination, Shereen Rubenstein, MSW. Case Study 5-2: Rape: When Professional Values Place Vulnerable Clients at Risk, Eileen Dombo, MSW. Case Study 5-3: When Self Determination Places an Unborn Child at Risk, Patricia Y. Braun, MSW. Case Study 5-4: Discharge Her to A Hospice Now!--A Conflict of Professional Loyalties, Josephine K. Bulkley, J.D. 6. NASW Ethical Standard Six: Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to the Broader Society. Case Study 6-1:HIV: The Confidentiality/ Duty to Warn Dilemma, Robin E. Rolley, J.D., MSW. Case Study 6-2: Dealing Drugs Can Confidentiality Ever Be Justified? Julie B. Goodale, MSW. Case Study 6-3: Limiting Self-Protection for Vulnerable Clients: An Acceptable Risk for the Protection of Society? Stephen Hardstack, MSW. Case Study 6-4: Out-patient Commitment: Must Mental Illness Preclude Civil Liberty? Kimberly Platt, MSW. Case Study 6-5: Genetic Research: For the Good of this Subject or for (Future) Society? Daniel W. Wilson. Case Study 6-6: A Commitment to Social Justice: Social Work and Immigration Policy, M. Therese Jones, MSW. 7. It's Your Turn--Ethics Cases for Practice. Appendix: The Code of Ethics of The National Association of Social Workers (Revised 1996). Index.

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