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Identify a specific ethical standard by name, number, and letter that helps guide social work practice given the circumstances presented in the dilemma scenario. For example, for a dilemma that has to do with being educated in cultural competence, you would reference ethical standard 1.05, Cultural Competence, letter C. briefly discuss how you would handle the ethical dilemma discussed. what would anything differently? Was the worker in the item practicing ethically? What should be done next? only cover Ethical Standards 2.01 through 2.10. Each successive assignment will require a review of different areas of the code.
1. During a lunch break, a co-worker, Liz, engages a fellow social worker, Mindy, in conversation. Liz begins venting about a difficult divorce and legal proceedings. "What's worse," Liz says, "is I'm drinking a lot more these days and can barely get out of bed most mornings." A week later, Mindy takes a call from an angry client of the agency who says Liz cancelled one appointment earlier in the month and didn't show up for their scheduled appointment last Friday. To follow up with the complaint, Mindy accesses the client's record and notices incoherent documentation throughout the chart.
2. A social worker and recent graduate is working with a client who describes herself as a "multiple". The first meeting is convoluted and difficult to track as the client shifts through an array of speaking styles and antics. The worker is overwhelmed, but intrigued. Within the same agency is a social worker who has worked with individuals dealing with Dissociative Identity Disorder for 15 years. The worker decides to continue working with the client, figuring there's no other way to gain experience with such an interesting client.
3. A social worker is at a get-together with friends and her friends' neighbors. At one point during the evening, the worker is involved in a conversation about an affair one of the neighbors had five years ago with her "therapist," a clinical social worker whose office is across the hall from the worker's agency. The therapist is well-known and respected in the community. She learns the affair lasted only a few months and ended because of concerns about the therapist's career. The neighbor also states that all of the other therapists in the agency were aware, but allowed it because the neighbor was making such good progress in therapy.
4. A social worker, Ben, is reviewing closed records as required by the agency. He reviews a chart kept by a fellow social worker, Alex, and is startled by the documentation. The worker's notes record procedures that do not match the client's needs. Also, the interventions are in violation of agency standards and expectations. Ben is particularly troubled because Alex is his best friend and roommate.
5. Several medical social workers are dismayed by the services provided by the physicians and nurses with whom they work. To preserve the work they are doing, they decide to no longer attend staff meetings so they can focus on specific social work issues.