Ethics And Values

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Sw'ers responsibility to colleagues

Back 1

Respect fairness and courtesy
Respect confidential info shared
Sexual relationships are discouraged
Report colleagues who do not take won action to protect clients

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Responsibility to employers

Back 2

must adhere to commitments

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Responsibilty to Profession

Back 3

Maintain Integrity of the profession
Community service
development of knowledge

Front 4

Responsibility to society

Back 4

Promote general welfare

Front 5

Least Restricted alternataive

Back 5

Put client in an unlocked ward before you put them in a lock down ward

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Ethical Codes

Back 6

standards of moral conduct
How to act when areas of conflict arise
Clarify responsibilty to clients and society
Regard for mores of the culture
grounds for guarding our freedom and integrity

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3 Considerations of ethical practice

Back 7

moral judgement: does it make me uncomfortable?
legal aspects
ethical implications:

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ethical Principles: 6

Back 8

Service
Social justice Dignitiy and worth of client
human relationships
integrity
competence

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SW'ers Ethical Responsibility to clients

Back 9

Commitment to client - unless child abuse or danger to self or others
Client's rights - Self-determination first, unless danger to self or others
Informed consent- Confidentiality, limit access to recores only if it could cause harm tot he client. document reason for withholding.
Fees- fair and reasonalble
Sexual relationships - NO

Front 10

If court ordered to pass over records

Back 10

get signed release and offer a summery of records.

Front 11

If client is involuntarily admitted must receive treatment

Back 11

Treatment must be cure or improvement oriented

Front 12

Rights of client

Back 12

right to due process and signed consent
right ot privacy

Front 13

When can client sue?

Back 13

if used in published case description w/out permission.If case is identifiable.

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When to disclose information

Back 14

Danger to self or others and in cases of child/elderly abuse
Must breech confidentiality of one client plans to harm another client

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Privilage

Back 15

similar to confedentiality bu applies specifically to the courts and other legal proceedings. ONly laws establish privilage. Privilege was traditionally held only by the client - not the theripist.
when working w/ adolecsents, parent or legal guardiands and emanipated minors are considered to possess privilege.

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Subpoenas

Back 16

only provide the infor required. If testifying on behalf of a client, have request put on writing

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Fees

Back 17

Never discharge a client because of inability to pay.

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Signing release of info

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clients should sign one, even before you share info w/ other professionals

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Co-optation

Back 19

entails using or including the person who opposes you or your program goals in completeing your agenda. This helps to reduce oppositions to getting group goals accomplished.

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Friendship & sex

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outside therapy session is forbidden. Once a client always a client.

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Pro bono

Back 21

directly encouraged.

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Malpractice

Back 22

Professional misconduct. unprofessional treatmetn of client

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Referrals

Back 23

Reason for referral. How will the client benefit?
Appropriatness of referral.
How? will client get there? how will info be transferred?
Confidentiality.
Should always give client a list of names if possible

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Advertising

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questioinable area.
Never use personal info
Stay in good taste.

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Reporting proceedures

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Physical or emotional abuse/neglect to a minor child under the age of 18 must be reproted no matter what.
Parental support and permission required for treatment to minors under the age of 18
children as young as 3 are often used to testify in abuse cases

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Spouse abuse

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All ages and $ levels
mutual abuse
tends ot increase over time
begins w/ emotional abuse
those who abuse have usually grown up in abusive homes

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SW values that govern practice

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Access to resources
every person has intrinsic worth
Acceptance and non-judgmental attitude
People have rights to freedome in so far that they don't infringe onthe rights of others.
Confidentialitly

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How to implement these values

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commitment to the value
employing resourses
willingness to develp programs that effectively meet human needs

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Beliefs vs Values

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B - how we think reality is
V - our ideas of how reality out to be
V + B = behavior

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agreements or contracts

Back 30

goals to be accomplished, clarify roles of participants
establish conditions under which assistance is to be provided.
Initial contract is what gets you going and guides your treatment

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Goals

Back 31

over all presumption of what you want to accomplish

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objectives

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How or the specifice way you acheive goals

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Purpose of Goals and objectives

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assure SW's and client's agreement
provide direction and continuity
facilitate selection of approporate strategies
monitor progress
searve as outcome criteria and measure effectiveness.

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Types of Goals

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Discrete - one-time actions or changes
Continuous - actions that are continuous.
shared; goasl held in common by members of system
reciprocal ; if you do this in the system the system will give you this back.

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Guidelines to setting goals

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relate to desired end result
defined in explicit and measurable terms
feasible
commensurate w/ knowledge and skill of the practitioner
stated in positive terms
Avoid agreeing to goals which you ahve major reservations

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Guideline to goal setting continued

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Consistent w/ the function of the agency
degermin client rediness
establish purpose
mutually set
define goals explicity