Reference no: EM133625898

Question: You work as a case worker in a local community mental health service. For the past six months, you have been helping your client Maree in supporting her with her mental health issues. You have arranged counselling and specialist care for Maree. You are also aware that Maree recently left her partner due to domestic and family violence, moved into independent accommodation and launched divorce proceedings against her partner. You receive a subpoena to provide case records of all your contacts with Maree and to provide testimony to the court in relation to the divorce proceedings. You are asked to disclose information about your professional interactions with Maree. When you discuss the subpoena with Maree,she asks you to keep the information confidential and not to disclose anything to the court. As a case worker, what ethical issue/s doesthisscenario present and how would you address it/them?

Word Count: 800 words per student contribution; as an indication/example, the total word count for a 4- person group* would be 3200 words excluding references. Note: word count is an academic issue/requirement and is assessable. Do not go below or exceed the word limit past 10%. The group must complete a written report on your chosen case study, following the work you completed for the oral presentation. Structuring the Report While an oral presentation with power point slides is necessarily brief, sufficient only to capture the critical aspects of the case, in the Report you must expand on these. You cannot use bullet points in the Report as you would do in the slides; instead, the Report must be written in full sentence and paragraph structure, following the report writing conventions for academic work. The Report must therefore follow the correct structure and organization of text including:

• Cover page - all student names and ID numbers

• Title page: case study number and title

• Executive summary

• Introduction

• Several paragraphs constituting the 'body' of the assignment in which you conduct your analysis and discussion as per instructions above. NOTE: please do not call this 'body'! Instead organise your paragraphs using sub-headings to group the content of your assignment in a coherent way.

• Conclusion, summarising the suggested recommendations.

• Reflection: each student must include their individual reflection.

• List of references: This must combine the references from all students which will be collated into a single list, following the APA 7th edition referencing style.

• Minutes of your meetings: The Minutes must be brief but informative to clearly show who did what in the assignment. A note on sub-headings: For each section noted above, please use sub-headings to flag to the reader where you are at; for example, Introduction and Conclusion are two such sub-headings. Other examples of subheadings in the body of the assignment might be 'Implications for the client' or 'Ethical Decision- Making Model' (include the name of the model used), or ethical principles. What you use for sub-headings is up to you, but they need to reflect your analysis, concepts you use, etc. Content of the Report

1. Briefly outline the facts of the case- do not reproduce/re-write the case study in your report but state the question title and number at the start of your report and give a brief overview.

2. Identify and analyse the relevant ethical issues, explaining the tensions that arise from the case for a community worker in Australia (e.g., conflict of interest, suspected child abuse, requests by client that cannot be accommodated, etc.)

3. Apply the relevant ethical principles and concepts (e.g., self-determination/autonomy, privacy/confidentiality, social justice, dual roles, etc. as applicable) to the case, drawing out their significance.

4. If/where relevant, cite appropriate legislation - if it is state-specific, ensure you cite the legislation pertinent to the Australian state for the campus you are in.

5. Name and explain a decision-making model and outline a clear ethical decision-making process.

6. Discuss the benefits and potential harms or drawbacks of the decision or actions the case worker could/would take.

7. For the Reflection, consider briefly your own role in the process of preparing

Assignment 2: preparing and delivering the oral presentation, the process of working as a group, and what you believe to have learned about ethics in community services through this process. 8. Include the full reference list at the end 9. Copy and paste the Minutes for your meetings (see separate document with instructions on how to prepare the Minutes) Literature and Referencing

• Your written report should include 8 - 12 (combined) sources of literature. As a group, you must determine what is needed to support your discussion.

• All sources/references must be justified or shown to be relevant or significant to your discussion. Do not simply make a list of statements with references at the end of a sentence, without showing why/how the reference is relevant. Long lists of references that are not clearly shown to be relevant do not attract better marks.

• All the sources/literature must be legitimate and credible. Thus, you should include a mix of scholarly (academic) peer reviewed journal articles and your textbook chapters, as well as regulatory literature as relevant to your case study. Examples of regulatory literature are legislation (Federal and/or state/territory), policy (particularly government policy, federal or state/territory), codes of ethics/codes of conduct, etc. All of these can be found on the Internet, but ensure you locate the correct authoring organisation/department and cite according to their suggestion.

• All regulatory documents must be Australian, and if you draw on state-specific regulation, it must be relevant to your state.

• If you use international sources for peer reviewed journal articles (i.e., academic articles and research articles), you must show the relevance to the Australian context. You must use APA 7th edition referencing style.